Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Emergent electric field control of phase transformation in oxide superlattices

  • Di Yi,
  • Yujia Wang,
  • Olaf M. J. van ʼt Erve,
  • Liubin Xu,
  • Hongtao Yuan,
  • Michael J. Veit,
  • Purnima P. Balakrishnan,
  • Yongseong Choi,
  • Alpha T. N’Diaye,
  • Padraic Shafer,
  • Elke Arenholz,
  • Alexander Grutter,
  • Haixuan Xu,
  • Pu Yu,
  • Berend T. Jonker,
  • Yuri Suzuki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14631-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Many complex oxides already have rich functional behavior but oxide heterostructures can exhibit new emergent properties. Yi et al. show that LSMO/SIO superlattices have a reversible electric-field-controlled structural phase transition that is not present in the constituent materials.