Surface metal-insulator transition on a vanadium pentoxide (001) single crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Blum, R P ^a,b   Niehus, H ^b   Hucho, C ^c   Fortrie, R ^b   Ganduglia Pirovano, M V ^b   Sauer, J ^b   Shaikhutdinov, S ^a   Freund, H J ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY GAP; MONTE CARLO METHODS; VACANCIES; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

CONCOMITANT OXYGEN LOSS; SURFACE METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION; VANADIUM PENTOXIDE; VANADYL-OXYGEN VACANCIES;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 36549014556     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.226103     Document Type: Article

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