Ab initio study of the two-dimensional metallic state at the surface of SrTiO 3: Importance of oxygen vacancies

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Shen, Juan ^a   Lee, Hunpyo ^a   Valentí, Roser ^a   Jeschke, Harald O ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84870034739     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.195119     Document Type: Article

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