A high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas at the spinel/perovskite interface of Al 2O3SrTiO3

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chen, Y Z ^a   Bovet, N ^b   Trier, F ^a   Christensen, D V ^a   Qu, F M ^c   Andersen, N H ^a   Kasama, T ^a   Zhang, W ^a   Giraud, R ^d,e   Dufouleur, J ^d   Jespersen, T S ^f   Sun, J R ^c   Smith, A ^a   Nygard J ^f   Lu, L ^c   Buchner B ^d   Shen, B G ^c   Linderoth, S ^a   Pryds, N ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOFILM; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOBILITY; PEROVSKITE; SPINEL; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; GAS; LOW TEMPERATURE; OSCILLATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THICKNESS;

EID: 84877591156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2394     Document Type: Article

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