Room-temperature giant persistent photoconductivity in SrTiO 3/LaAlO 3 heterostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1278-1283

  Tebano, Antonello ^a   Fabbri, Emiliana ^b   Pergolesi, Daniele ^b   Balestrino, Giuseppe ^a   Traversa, Enrico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; persistent photocurrent; SrTiO 3 LaAlO 3 interfaces

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION MECHANISM; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; INTRINSIC BEHAVIOR; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERSISTENT PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PERSISTENT PHOTOCURRENTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SRTIO; VISIBLE LIGHT;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; STRONTIUM TITANATES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

LANTHANUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84857693089     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203991q     Document Type: Article

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