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Quantifying Octahedral Distortions in Perovskites

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Electronic and Structural Properties of LaNiO₃-Based Heterostructures

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The principal role of the structure in determining the physical properties of transition metal oxides is widely appreciated. In nickelates, the electronic and magnetic properties exhibit a particularly clear lattice dependence. The nickelate phase diagram itself is almost always shown with the x-axis representing the structural distortion in one way or another, for example, the Ni–O–Ni bond angle that dictates the orbital overlap.

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Fowlie, J. (2019). Quantifying Octahedral Distortions in Perovskites. In: Electronic and Structural Properties of LaNiO₃-Based Heterostructures. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15238-3_5

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