Prominent electrochromism through vacancy-order melting in a complex oxide

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Seidel, J ^a,b,c   Luo, W ^d,e   Suresha, S J ^a   Nguyen, P K ^f   Lee, A S ^g   Kim, S Y ^g   Yang, C H ^b,h   Pennycook, S J ^d,e   Pantelides, S T ^d,e   Scott, J F ⁱ   Ramesh, R ^a,b,g  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Piscataway   (United States)

^g University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^h Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; IRON; OXIDE; OXYGEN;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROCHROME; FILM; OPTICS; OXYGEN VACANCY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84860279841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1799     Document Type: Article

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