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Simultaneous studies on the magnetic and electrotransport properties of Nd_{0.67} Sr_{0.33} Mn_{1-x} Fe_x O_3 polycrystalline bulk and epitaxial thin films (x = 0.00 and 0.05) have been carried out. A magnetoresistance (MR) as high as ~ 33%…
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Recent studies have reported the existence of an epitaxially-stabilized tetragonal-like ('T-like') monoclinic phase in BiFeO3 thin-films with high levels of compressive strain. While their structural and ferroelectric properties are…
The coupling between the electrical transport properties of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) thin films and structural phase transitions of SrTiO3 (STO) substrates at Ts = 105 K has been investigated. We found that the electrical resistivity of LSMO…
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Through ${in~situ}$ photoemission spectroscopy, we investigated the change in the electronic and crystal structures of dimensionality-controlled VO$_2$ films coherently grown on TiO$_2$(001) substrates. In the nanostructured films, the…
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We investigate electron transport and phase-breaking processes in thin titanium nitride (TiN) films of epitaxial quality. Previous studies show that a minute surface magnetic disorder significantly reduces the critical temperature…
EuTiO3, a band insulator, and LaTiO3, a Mott insulator, are both antiferromagnetic with transition temperatures ~ 5.5 K and ~ 160 K, respectively. Here, we report the synthesis of Eu1-xLaxTiO3 thin films with x = 0 to 1 by oxide molecular…
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Understanding of metal insulator transitions in a strongly correlated system, driven by Anderson localization (disorder) and/or Mott localization (correlation), is a long standing problem in condensed matter physics. The prevailing…