Strain-induced defect superstructure on the SrTiO3(110) surface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Zhiming ^a,b   Li, Fengmiao ^a   Meng, Sheng ^a   Zhang, Jiandi ^c   Plummer, E W ^c   Diebold, Ulrike ^b   Guo, Jiandong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPHASE DOMAINS; COMPLEX OXIDES; DEFECT PAIRS; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; FLEXIBLE PLATFORMS; FORMATION ENERGIES; STRAIN ENGINEERING; STRAIN-INDUCED DEFECTS;

GROWTH (MATERIALS); SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

SURFACES;

EID: 84881528316     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.056101     Document Type: Article

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