Chemically induced Jahn-Teller ordering on manganite surfaces

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gai, Zheng ^a   Lin, Wenzhi ^a   Burton, J D ^b   Fuchigami, K ^c   Snijders, P C ^a,d   Ward, T Z ^a   Tsymbal, Evgeny Y ^b   Shen, J ^d,e   Jesse, Stephen ^a   Kalinin, Sergei V ^a   Baddorf, Arthur P ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; PEROVSKITE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISPLACEMENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; MAPPING; PARAMETERIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; JAHN TELLER DISTORTION; MANGANITE SURFACE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84905046390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5528     Document Type: Article

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