Temperature dependence of density of states near the Fermi level in a strain-free epitaxial film of the hole-doped manganite La 0.7Ca 0.3MnO 3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Mitra, J ^a   Paranjape, Mandar ^a   Raychaudhuri, A K ^a   Mathur, N D ^b   Blamire, M G ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LANTHANUM; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; FILM; INSULATOR ELEMENT; PHYSICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 20344379912     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.094426     Document Type: Article

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