Chemical Bonding and Atomic Structure in Y2O3:ZrO2-SrTiO3 Layered Heterostructures**
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Repeating boundaries: the buried interfaces in artificial heterostructures produced by sequential deposition of nanosized units are critical to their properties. With density functional theory it was shown that in Y(2)O(3):ZrO(2) (YSZ) and SrTiO(3) (STO) heterostructures reconstruction of the interfaces between the component units is required to access the most favorable structure.
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