Two-dimensional polaronic behavior in the binary oxides m-HfO 2 and m-ZrO 2

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  McKenna, Keith P ^a,b   Wolf, Matthew J ^c   Shluger, Alexander L ^b,c   Lany, Stephan ^d   Zunger, Alex ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY OXIDES; ENERGETIC BARRIERS; LATTICE STRUCTURES; OXYGEN SUBLATTICES; SMALL POLARONS; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

HAFNIUM OXIDES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

POLARONS;

EID: 84858257810     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.116403     Document Type: Article

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