Measurement of the femtosecond optical absorption of LaAlO 3/SrTiO3 heterostructures: Evidence for an extremely slow electron relaxation at the interface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yamada, Yasuhiro ^a   Sato, Hiroki K ^b,c   Hikita, Yasuyuki ^b   Hwang, Harold Y ^b,d   Kanemitsu, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD ABSORPTIONS; ELECTRON RELAXATION DYNAMICS; ENERGY RELAXATION; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; HETERO INTERFACES; INTERFACE POTENTIALS; RELAXATION DYNAMICS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; POLARONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

STRONTIUM TITANATES;

EID: 84880856504     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.047403     Document Type: Article

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