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Nature Materials 6, 473 - 474 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1944

Oxide interfaces: Watch out for the lack of oxygen

James N. Eckstein1

  1. James N. Eckstein is in the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Ilinois 61801-3080, USA. e-mail: eckstein@uiuc.edu


Interfaces between certain insulating perovskite oxides show unexpected properties, such as high conductivity and magnetism. Oxygen vacancies seem to be important in these structures, but the puzzle is far from being understood.

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