Chemical-state evolution and phase stability of epitaxial <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>PtCoO</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn>
Epitaxial PtCoO 2 thin films were grown on Al 2 O 3 ( 0001 ) substrates by physical vapor deposition under back-end-of-line compatible conditions, followed by postdeposition annealing to induce crystallization. While annealing-driven structural evolution in delafossite oxides ha...