Modifying the electronic orbitals of nickelate heterostructures via structural distortions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Hanghui ^a,b   Kumah, Divine P ^b   Disa, Ankit S ^b   Walker, Frederick J ^b   Ahn, Charles H ^b   Ismail Beigi, Sohrab ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ATOMIC-SCALE DISTORTIONS; ELECTRONIC ORBITALS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HIGH-TEMPERATURE CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS; INTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; ORBITAL POLARIZATIONS; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84876953473     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.186402     Document Type: Article

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