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Electronic reconstruction and enhanced superconductivity at LaNdSrCuO/LaSrCuO bilayer interface
We report enhanced superconductivity in bilayer thin films consisting of
superconducting LaNdSrCuO with 0.06
0.20 and metallic but non-superconducting LaSrCuO.
These bilayers show a maximum increase in superconducting transition
temperature () of more than 200% for = 0.06 while no change in
is observed for the bilayers with 0.20. The analysis of the critical
current and kinetic inductance data suggests 2-3 unit cells thick interfacial
layer electronically perturbed to have a higher . A simple charge transfer
model with cation intermixing explains the observed in bilayers. Still
the unusually large thickness of interfacial superconducting layers can not be
explained in terms of this model. We believe the stripe relaxation as well as
the proximity effect also influence the superconductivity of the interface
Strain induced magnetic domain evolution and spin re-orientation transition in epitaxial manganite films
The evolution of magnetic domain structure in epitaxial
LaCaMnO films on (001) NdGaO is monitored as a
function of temperature and magnetic field using Magnetic Force Microscopy. We
see two distinct regions of magnetic orientational order; one in-plane
displaying contrast-less image and the other tilted away from the film plane
forming a distinct stripe pattern. A strong domain splitting is observed at the
boundary of two regions, which is resilient to reorientation with temperature
and magnetic field. We propose a model magnetic free energy functional to
explain the mechanism of domain splitting seen in manganite films
The peroxisome: a production in four acts
A cell regulates the number, size, and kind of each organelle it possesses in response to its particular role in an environment or tissue. Yet we still know little about how the molecular signaling networks within each cell perform such regulation. In this issue, Saleem et al. (Saleem, R.A., B. Knoblach, F.D. Mast, J.J. Smith, J. Boyle, C.M. Dobson, R. Long-O'Donnell, R.A. Rachubinski, and J.D. Aitchison. 2008. J. Cell Biol. 181:281–292) show for the first time how groups of kinases and phosphatases are organized to control when and how a cell assembles one kind of organelle, the peroxisome
Two-dimensional electron-gas-like charge transport at magnetic Heusler alloy-SrTiO interface
We report remarkably low residual resistivity, giant residual resistivity
ratio, free-electron-like Hall resistivity and high mobility ( 10
cmVs) charge transport in epitaxial films of CoMnSi and
CoFeSi grown on (001) SrTiO. This unusual behavior is not observed in
films deposited on other cubic oxide substrates of comparable lattice
parameters. The scaling of the resistivity with thickness of the films allow
extraction of interface conductance, which can be attributed to a layer of
oxygen vacancies confined within 1.9 nm of the interface as revealed by
atomically resolved electron microscopy and spectroscopy. The high mobility
transport observed here at the interface of a fully spin polarized metal is
potentially important for spintronics applications
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