Orbital engineering in symmetry-breaking polar heterostructures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Disa, Ankit S ^a,b   Kumah, Divine P ^a,b   Malashevich, Andrei ^a,b   Chen, Hanghui ^a,b,c   Arena, Dario A ^d   Specht, Eliot D ^e   Ismail Beigi, Sohrab ^a,b   Walker, F J ^a,b   Ahn, Charles H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; INVERSION SYMMETRY; ORBITAL CONFIGURATION; ORBITAL DEGENERACY; ORBITAL OCCUPATION; POLAR HETEROSTRUCTURES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84921466520     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.026801     Document Type: Article

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