Ultrafast charge localization in a stripe-phase nickelate

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Coslovich, G ^a   Huber, B ^a   Lee, W S ^b   Chuang, Y D ^a   Zhu, Y ^a   Sasagawa, T ^c   Hussain, Z ^a   Bechtel, H A ^a   Martin, M C ^a   Shen, Z X ^b   Schoenlein, R W ^a   Kaindl, R A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANTHANUM; NICKEL; OXIDE; STRONTIUM;

ASYMMETRY; ELECTRON; EQUILIBRIUM; NICKEL; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VIBRATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHONON; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAFAST CHARGE LOCALIZATION; VIBRATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84886678462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3643     Document Type: Article

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