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An atomic force pencil and eraser

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 270–271 (2008)Cite this article

A method of writing and erasing conducting nanostructures at the interface between the wide-bandgap insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 is presented. New developments for ultrahigh-density information storage look feasible.

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Figure 1: Scheme of the experiment reported by Cen and colleagues4.
Figure 2: Sheet resistance of n-type SrTiO3–LaAlO3 interfaces.

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Rijnders, G., Blank, D. An atomic force pencil and eraser. Nature Mater 7, 270–271 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2145

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