Effect of polar discontinuity on the growth of LaNiO3 / LaAlO3 superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Jian ^a   Kareev, M ^a   Prosandeev, S ^a   Gray, B ^a   Ryan, P ^b   Freeland, J W ^b   Chakhalian, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; NON-POLAR; PEROVSKITE LAYERS; POLAR SURFACES; SRTIO; STRUCTURAL EFFECT;

OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; SUPERLATTICES;

LANTHANUM ALLOYS;

EID: 77950512018     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3371690     Document Type: Article

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15. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3371690 E-APPLAB-96-073012 for detailed derivation. The charges include the polarization discontinuity charge.
16. In reality, a more gradual distribution may be expected for these charges that stems from the gradient contribution to H. The corresponding charge distribution function should minimize H at each given thickness.