Highly dense and compositionally inhomogeneous nano-agglomerates in an epitaxial La0.8 Sr0.2MnO3 thin film grown on (100)SrTiO3

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 571-579

  Zhu, Y L ^a   Ma, X L ^a   Li, D X ^a   Lu, H B ^b   Chen, Z H ^b   Yang, G Z ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FILM GROWTH; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; NANO-AGGLOMERATES; ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIPS; ORTHORHOMBIC LATTICE;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 29044434693     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2005.0082     Document Type: Article

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