Assessment of Strain-Generated Oxygen Vacancies Using SrTiO3 Bicrystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4129-4134

  Choi, Si Young ^a   Kim, Sung Dae ^a   Choi, Minseok ^a   Lee, Hak Sung ^a   Ryu, Jungho ^a   Shibata, Naoya ^b   Mizoguchi, Teruyasu ^c   Tochigi, Eita ^b   Yamamoto, Takahisa ^d   Kang, Suk Joong L ^e   Ikuhara, Yuichi ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Material Science   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

bicrystals; oxygen vacancies; Perovskites; strain engineering

Indexed keywords

BICRYSTALS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; STRAIN; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACANCIES;

ATOMIC-SCALE DEFECTS; CURRENT VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FORMATION ENERGIES; HETEROGENEOUS INTERFACES; STRAIN ENGINEERING; VACANCY FORMATION;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84935851799     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01245     Document Type: Article

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