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During heat treatment, diffusion is activated at the substrate surface while its bulk remains solid. The team examined products formed on LaAlO₃, LSAT and SrTiO₃ using X-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy.","The researchers identified four phases; for three, the measured diffraction and microscopy results did not match entries in the experimental and computational inorganic-structure databases they checked. Small sample volumes limited full crystallographic structure determination. 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