Giant photovoltaic effects driven by residual polar field within unit-cell-scale LaAlO3 films on SrTiO3

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liang, Haixing ^a   Cheng, Long ^a   Zhai, Xiaofang ^a   Pan, Nan ^a   Guo, Hongli ^a   Zhao, Jin ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Zhang, Xiaoqiang ^a   Wang, Xiaoping ^a   Zeng, Changgan ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a   Hou, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84879625855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01975     Document Type: Article

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