Correlating interfacial octahedral rotations with magnetism in (LaMnO 3+δ)N/(SrTiO3)N superlattices

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhai, Xiaofang ^a,b   Cheng, Long ^a   Liu, Yang ^c   Schlepütz, Christian M ^c   Dong, Shuai ^d   Li, Hui ^a   Zhang, Xiaoqiang ^a   Chu, Shengqi ^e   Zheng, Lirong ^e   Zhang, Jing ^e   Zhao, Aidi ^a,b   Hong, Hawoong ^c   Bhattacharya, Anand ^c   Eckstein, James N ^f   Zeng, Changgan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^f University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL PROPERTY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERFACE; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OXIDE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; ROTATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROTATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84904205127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5283     Document Type: Article

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