Electronic charge redistribution in LaAlO 3(001) thin films deposited at SrTiO 3(001) substrate: First-principles analysis and the role of stoichiometry

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Sorokine, Alexandre ^a,b   Bocharov, Dmitry ^a   Piskunov, Sergei ^a,b   Kashcheyevs, Vyacheslavs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

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EID: 84867447763     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.155410     Document Type: Article

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