Laterally confined two-dimensional electron gases in self-patterned LaAlO 3/SrTiO 3 interfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Foerster, M ^a   Bachelet, R ^a   Laukhin, V ^a,b   Fontcuberta, J ^a   Herranz, G ^a   Sanchez F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC COMPOSITIONS; CONDUCTING INTERFACE; HIGH MOBILITY; INTERFACE COMPOSITION; ISOLATED REGIONS; LATERAL CONFINEMENT; LATERAL SIZES; NANO SCALE; NANOMETRICS; SRTIO; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

ELECTRON GAS; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84862146727     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4728109     Document Type: Article

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