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Upward mobility rocks!

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Propelled by the recent renaissance of oxides, a material has emerged with sufficient purity and perfection to join those select materials that show the fractional quantum Hall effect: ZnO.

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Figure 1: A historical view of the upward mobility of electrons in ever-cleaner ZnO and GaAs heterostructures and the steps leading to this improvement.

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  1. Darrell G. Schlom is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-1501, USA. schlom@cornell.edu,

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  2. Loren N. Pfeiffer is in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.,

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