Engineering two-dimensional superconductivity and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 quantum wells by selective orbital occupancy

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Herranz, Gervasi ^a   Singh, Gyanendra ^b   Bergeal, Nicolas ^b   Jouan, Alexis ^b   Lesueur, Jérôme ^b   Gázquez, Jaume ^a   Varela, Mariá ^c,d   Scigaj, Mateusz ^a,e   Dix, Nico ^a   Sánchez, Florencio ^a   Fontcuberta, Josep ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; LANTHANUM; OXYGEN; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENGINEERING; INTERFACE; ORIENTATION; OXIDE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; GAS; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM WELL; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 84923165653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7028     Document Type: Article

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