Relativistic effects in electron-energy-loss-spectroscopy observations of the interface plasmon peak

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 6774-6781

  Moreau, P ^a   Brun, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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EID: 0001268672     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.6774     Document Type: Article

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