Effect of reduced dimensionality on the optical band gap of SrTiO 3

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Che Hui ^a,b   Podraza, Nikolas J ^c   Zhu, Ye ^a   Berger, Robert F ^d   Shen, Shaoping ^e   Sestak, Michelle ^c   Collins, Robert W ^c   Kourkoutis, Lena F ^a   Mundy, Julia A ^a   Wang, Huiqiong ^a   Mao, Qingyun ^a   Xi, Xiaoxing ^f   Brillson, Leonard J ^e   Neaton, Jeffrey B ^d   Muller, David A ^a   Schlom, Darrell G ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e The Ohio State University   (United States)

^f Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND EDGE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HOMOLOGOUS SERIES; IN-BAND; ROOM TEMPERATURE; RUDDLESDEN-POPPER; SRTIO; TIO;

CALCULATIONS; MONOLAYERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

OPTICAL BAND GAPS;

EID: 84875929257     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4798241     Document Type: Article

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