Built-in and induced polarization across LaAlO 3 /SrTiO 3 heterojunctions

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-86

  Singh Bhalla, Guneeta ^a,b,c,d   Bell, Christopher ^c,e   Ravichandran, Jayakanth ^a,b   Siemons, Wolter ^a   Hikita, Yasuyuki ^c   Salahuddin, Sayeef ^f   Hebard, Arthur F ^d   Hwang, Harold Y ^c,e   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON GAS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; PHASE INTERFACES; STRONTIUM TITANATES; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

BUILT-IN ELECTRIC FIELDS; BUILT-IN POTENTIAL; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; ELECTROSTATIC STABILITY; INDUCED DIPOLE MOMENTS; INDUCED POLARIZATION; METALLIC ELECTRODES; SRTIO3 SUBSTRATES;

VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78650524774     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1814     Document Type: Article

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