Titanium dxy ferromagnetism at the LaAlO3/SrTiO 3 interface

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 703-706

  Lee, J S ^a   Xie, Y W ^b   Sato, H K ^c   Bell, C ^c   Hikita, Y ^c   Hwang, H Y ^b,c   Kao, C C ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; EMERGENT PHENOMENON; FERROMAGNETIC ORDERS; MODEL CALCULATIONS; OXIDE INTERFACES; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM;

LANTHANUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 84880802525     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3674     Document Type: Article

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