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The third way

Nature Materials volume 3, pages 207–209 (2004)Cite this article

The emergence of nanoscale features — such as magnetic and electronic patterns — in materials that are otherwise homogeneous provides a potential alternative to conventional top-down and bottom-up fabrication techniques. The way these features arise in manganite crystals is contentious, but could be explained using elasticity theory.

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Figure 1: Three ways of creating nanoscale features.
Figure 2: Magnetic, electronic and structural textures occur in manganites over a wide range of length scales, and may be probed using a wide range of techniques.

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    Neil Mathur

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