Microscopic origins for stabilizing room-temperature ferromagnetism in ultrathin manganite layers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 11682-11685

  Kourkoutis, L Fitting ^a   Song, J H ^b,c   Hwang, H Y ^c,d   Muller, D A ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Manganites; Scanning transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; LANTHANUM; MANGANESE; STRONTIUM TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955360951     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005693107     Document Type: Article

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