Polarization screening-induced magnetic phase gradients at complex oxide interfaces

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Spurgeon, Steven R ^a   Balachandran, Prasanna V ^a,i,j   Kepaptsoglou, Despoina M ^b   Damodaran, Anoop R ^c   Karthik, J ^d   Nejati, Siamak ^a   Jones, Lewys ^e   Ambaye, Haile ^f   Lauter, Valeria ^f   Ramasse, Quentin M ^b   Lau, Kenneth K S ^a   Martin, Lane W ^c,g   Rondinelli, James M ^h   Taheri, Mitra L ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Northwestern University   (United States)

ⁱ LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j Yale University   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANTHANUM; LEAD; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; STRONTIUM; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FILM; INSULATION; MAGNETIZATION; OXIDE; POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETISM; NEUTRON; OXIDATION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; REFLECTOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84928041751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7735     Document Type: Article

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