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Nanoscale Charge Transport Characteristics at Perovskite Interfaces – a Holistic Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2014

Ramsey Kraya  and
Laura Kraya
Ramsey Kraya
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Laura Kraya
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

Here we investigate how charge transport properties scale down to the nanoscale regime, comparing the properties to standard semiconductor materials and providing a perspective on what it means to device manufacturing. Strontium titanate - the prototypical oxide material - has been widely studied for applications in thermoelectrics, nanoelectronics, catalysis, and other uses. We investigated how charge transport is effected at interfaces to strontium titanate under a wide range of conditions - by varying contact size, interface shape, dopant concentration, surface structures and in various combinations and relate the results to experiments utilizing standard semiconducting materials such as silicon and gallium arsenide. Also, the results of the analysis has wide ranging implications, especially for ferroelectric perovskite materials and serves as the basis for understanding and controlling switching effects - both polarization and oxygen migration based switching.

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oxidenanoscaleelectrical properties
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1631: Symposium P – Emergent Electron Transport Properties at Complex Oxide Interfaces , 2014 , mrsf13-1631-p03-09
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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