Perovskite oxide tricolor superlattices with artificially broken inversion symmetry by interface effects

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 4793-4795

  Yamada, Hiroyuki ^a   Kawasaki, M ^a,c   Ogawa, Y ^b   Tokura, Y ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; PEROVSKITE; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

INVERSION SYMMETRY;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0037449306     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1530734     Document Type: Article

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