Nanoscale control of an interfacial metal-insulator transition at room temperature

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 298-302

  Cen, C ^a   Thiel, S ^b   Hammerl, G ^b   Schneider, C W ^b   Andersen, K E ^c   Hellberg, C S ^c   Mannhart, J ^b   Levy, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHASE STRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

NANOSCALE CONTROL; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 41149155321     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2136     Document Type: Article

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