Growth of nanoscale BaTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices by molecular-beam epitaxy

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1417-1432

  Soukiassian, A ^a   Tian, W ^a,b   Vaithyanathan, V ^a,b   Haeni, J H ^a,c   Chen, L Q ^a   Xi, X X ^a   Schlom, D G ^a   Tenne, D A ^d   Sun, H P ^e   Pan, X Q ^e   Choi, K J ^f   Eom, C B ^f   Li, Y L ^g   Jia, Q X ^g   Constantin, C ^h   Feenstra, R M ^h   Bernhagen, M ⁱ   Reiche, P ⁱ   Uecker, R ⁱ  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR CRYSTAL GROWTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLAYERS; STRAIN; SUPERLATTICES; THERMAL EFFECTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

PARAELECTRIC-TO-FERROELEOTRIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; REFLECTION HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION (RHEED);

BARIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 44649092713     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2008.0181     Document Type: Article

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