Anisotropic two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3 /SrTiO3 (110) interface

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Annadi, A ^a   Zhang, Q ^b,c,d   Renshaw Wang, X ^a   Tuzla, N ^e   Gopinadhan, K ^a   Lu W M ^a   Roy Barman, A ^a   Liu, Z Q ^a   Srivastava, A ^a   Saha, S ^a   Zhao, Y L ^a   Zeng, S W ^a   Dhar, S ^a   Olsson, E ^e   Gu, B ^d,f   Yunoki, S ^c,d   Maekawa, S ^d,f   Hilgenkamp, H ^g,h   Venkatesan, T ^a   Ariando, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b YANCHENG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; LANTHANUM; LANTHANUM DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON; INSULATION; MAGNESIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOBILITY; OXIDE; POLARIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISPERSION; ELECTRON; GAS; OXYGEN TENSION; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878566444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2804     Document Type: Article

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