Resonant soft x-ray scattering studies of interface reconstructions in SrTiO3 / LaAlO3 superlattices

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Wadati, H ^a   Hawthorn, D G ^a   Geck, J ^a   Higuchi, T ^b   Hikita, Y ^b   Hwang, H Y ^b,c   Kourkoutis, L Fitting ^d   Muller, D A ^d   Huang, S W ^e   Huang, D J ^e   Lin, H J ^e   Schussler Langeheine C ^f   Wu, H H ^e,f   Schierle, E ^g   Weschke, E ^g   Ingle, N J C ^a   Sawatzky, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^e NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROSTRUCTURES; INTERFACE RECONSTRUCTION; REFLECTIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFT X-RAY; SRTIO; SUPER-LATTICE STRUCTURES; TIO;

LANTHANUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; SUPERLATTICES; X RAY SCATTERING;

SCATTERING;

EID: 70350723516     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3246788     Document Type: Article

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