Polarons and confinement of electronic motion to two dimensions in a layered manganite

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7087, 2006, Pages 1025-1028

  Ronnow H M ^a   Renner, Ch ^b   Aeppli, G ^b   Kimura, T ^c   Tokura, Y ^d,e  

^a Laboratory for Neutron Scattering Villigen   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ENERGY GAP; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS;

ELECTRON-LATTICE INTERACTIONS; METALLIC TIP; PSEUDOGAP EFFECTS; TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

LANTHANUM; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; METAL OXIDE; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; STRONTIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MANGANESE OXIDE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33646192595     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04650     Document Type: Article

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