Polar metals by geometric design

Nature

Volumn 533, Issue 7601, 2016, Pages 68-72

  Kim, T H ^a   Puggioni, D ^b   Yuan, Y ^c   Xie, L ^d,e   Zhou, H ^f   Campbell, N ^a   Ryan, P J ^f   Choi, Y ^f   Kim, J W ^f   Patzner, J R ^a   Ryu, S ^a   Podkaminer, J P ^a   Irwin, J ^a   Ma, Y ^a   Fennie, C J ^g   Rzchowski, M S ^a   Pan, X Q ^d   Gopalan, V ^c   Rondinelli, J M ^b   Eom, C B ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; METAL; PEROVSKITE;

AMPLITUDE; CATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; PEROVSKITE; PHYSICS; STABILIZATION; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; FILM; GEOMETRY; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84969895317     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17628     Document Type: Article

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