Insulating ferromagnetic LaCoO3-δ films: A phase induced by ordering of oxygen vacancies

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Biškup, Neven ^a,b   Salafranca, Juan ^a,b   Mehta, Virat ^c,d   Oxley, Mark P ^e,f   Suzuki, Yuri ^c,d,g   Pennycook, Stephen J ^b,e   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^b,e,f   Varela, Maria ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; EXCESS ELECTRONS; ORDERING OF OXYGEN VACANCIES; Z-CONTRAST IMAGING;

COBALT; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EPITAXIAL FILMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERROMAGNETISM;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84897731032     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.087202     Document Type: Article

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