Multifunctional oxide heterostructures /
This book is devoted to the rapidly developing field of oxide thin-films and heterostructures. Oxide materials combined with atomic-scale precision in a heterostructure exhibit an abundance of macroscopic physical properties involving the strong coupling between the electronic, spin, and structural...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | FIrst edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of contributors""; ""PART I: FUNDAMENTALS""; ""1 A brief introduction to strongly correlated electronic materials""; ""1.1 Motivation""; ""1.2 Introduction""; ""1.3 Why correlated electrons?""; ""1.4 Control of correlated electrons in complex oxides""; ""1.5 Ordering of charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom""; ""1.6 Model Hamiltonians""; ""1.7 Intrinsically inhomogeneous states""; ""1.8 Giant responses in correlated electron systems""; ""1.9 Importance of quenched disorder and strain""
- ""1.10 Outlook for correlated-electron technology: spintronics, double perovskites, multiferroics, orbitronics, resistance switching""""1.11 Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""2 Magnetoelectric coupling and multiferroic materials""; ""2.1 Introduction: magnetoelectric coupling and multiferroic materials""; ""2.2 Magnetoelectric coupling""; ""2.3 Magnetoelectric multiferroics""; ""Appendix 2.1 Magnetoelectric measurements""; ""Appendix 2.2 Critical exponents in isostructural phase transitions""; ""References""
- ""PART II: OXIDE FILMS AND INTERFACES: GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION""""3 Synthesis of epitaxial multiferroic oxide thin films""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Substrates""; ""3.3 Strain engineering as a tool for controlling functional oxide thin films""; ""3.4 Vicinal control of functional properties""; ""3.5 Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""4 Synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of oxide heterostructures""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Surface X-ray diffraction""; ""4.3 Resonant scattering""; ""4.4 Anisotropic effects""; ""4.5 Summary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""
- ""5 Scanning transmission electron microscopy of oxides""""5.1 Introduction to STEM""; ""5.2 STEM imaging""; ""5.3 Mapping materials properties through EELS fine structure""; ""5.4 Applications: interfaces in manganite/cuprate heterostructures""; ""5.5 Summary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""6 Advanced modes of piezoresponse force microscopy for ferroelectric nanostructures""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.2 Ferroelectric structures and size effects""; ""6.3 Advanced modes of PFM""; ""6.4 Summary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""
- ""PART III: OXIDE FILMS AND INTERFACES: FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES""""7 General considerations of the electrostatic boundary conditions in oxide heterostructures""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 The polar discontinuity picture""; ""7.3 Metallic conductivity between two insulators""; ""7.4 The local charge neutrality picture""; ""7.5 Equivalence of the two pictures""; ""7.6 Further discussions""; ""7.7 Summary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""8 Strongly correlated heterostructures""; ""8.1 Introduction""; ""8.2 Theoretical description""; ""8.3 Mott-insulator/band-insulator heterostructures""