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The conducting face of an insulator

Nature volume 469, pages 167–168 (2011)Cite this article

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Stacking two oxide insulators together is known to yield a conducting system at the interface between the oxides. But the discovery that simply cleaving such an insulator yields the same outcome is unexpected. See Letter p.189

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Figure 1: Cleave the oxide.

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  1. Elbio Dagotto is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and in the Materials Science and Technology Division, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. edagotto@utk.edu,

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