Atomic-scale imaging of nanoengineered oxygen vacancy profiles in SrTiO3

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7000, 2004, Pages 657-661

  Muller, David A ^a,b   Nakagawa, Naoyuki ^a,c   Ohtomo, Akira ^a,d   Grazul, John L ^a,b   Hwang, Harold Y ^a,c,e  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PEROVSKITE; STOICHIOMETRY; VARISTORS;

DOPANTS; TRANSITION METAL OXIDES;

STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

METAL OXIDE; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM TITANATE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; TITANITE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FILM; LASER; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 4043175613     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02756     Document Type: Article

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