First-principles prediction of a two dimensional electron gas at the BiFeO 3/SrTiO 3 interface

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Zhen ^a   Wu, Ping ^a   Chen, Lang ^b   Wang, Junling ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; PARAELECTRICS; POLARIZATION DISCONTINUITY; SRTIO; SUPERCELL APPROACH; TIO; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS (2DEG);

CALCULATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISASTER PREVENTION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHASE INTERFACES; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 84860415068     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3624457     Document Type: Article

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