Epitaxial Ba2IrO4 thin-films grown on SrTiO3 substrates by pulsed laser   deposition
  We have synthesized epitaxial Ba2IrO4 (BIO) thin-films on SrTiO3 (001) substrates by pulsed laser deposition and studied their electronic structure by dc-transport and optical spectroscopic experiments. We have observed that BIO thin-films are insulating but close to the metalinsulator transition boundary with significantly smaller transport and optical gap energies than its sister compound, Sr2IrO4. Moreover, BIO thin-films have both an enhanced electronic bandwidth and electronic-correlation energy. Our results suggest that BIO thin-films have great potential for realizing the interesting physical properties predicted in layered iridates. 
J. Nichols, O. B. Korneta, J. Terzic, G. Cao, J. W. Brill, and S. S.   A. Seo
cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.supr-con