Enhancing interfacial conductivity and spatial charge confinement of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures via strain engineering

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Nazir, Safdar ^a   Behtash, Maziar ^a   Yang, Kesong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CONFINEMENT; INTERFACIAL CONDUCTIVITY; STRAIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84907942407     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4897626     Document Type: Article

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