Orbital reflectometry of oxide heterostructures

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-193

  Benckiser, Eva ^a   Haverkort, Maurits W ^a   Brück, Sebastian ^b,c   Goering, Eberhard ^b   MacKe, Sebastian ^b   Frañ, Alex ^a   Yang, Xiaoping ^a,d   Andersen, Ole K ^a   Cristiani, Georg ^a   Habermeier, Hanns Ulrich ^a   Boris, Alexander V ^a   Zegkinoglou, Ioannis ^a   Wochner, Peter ^b   Kim, Heon Jung ^a,e   Hinkov, Vladimir ^a   Keimer, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e Daegu University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EMPLOYMENT; MULTILAYERS; REFLECTION; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

AB-INITIO ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; MAGNETIC AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ORBITAL OCCUPATION; ORBITAL POLARIZATIONS; OXIDE HETEROSTRUCTURES; SOFT-X-RAY REFLECTIVITY; SURFACES AND INTERFACES; TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES;

ORBITAL CALCULATIONS;

EID: 79951942082     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2958     Document Type: Article

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