Origins of bad-metal conductivity and the insulator-metal transition in the rare-earth nickelates

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 304-307

  Jaramillo, R ^a,c   Ha, Sieu D ^a   Silevitch, D M ^b   Ramanathan, Shriram ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; METALS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; ORBITS; RARE EARTHS; SAMARIUM COMPOUNDS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; INSULATOR METAL TRANSITION; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; METAL CONDUCTIVITY; ORBITAL INTERACTION; SCATTERING RATES; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLES;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 84897571947     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2907     Document Type: Article

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