Tuning the structure of nickelates to achieve two-dimensional electron conduction.

Kumah, Divine P; Disa, Ankit S; Ngai, Joseph H; Chen, Hanghui; Malashevich, Andrei; Reiner, James W; Ismail-Beigi, Sohrab; Walker, Frederick J et al. · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Metallic electronic transport in nickelate heterostructures can be induced and confined to two dimensions (2D) by controlling the structural parameters of the nickel-oxygen planes.