Ordering and self-organization in nanocrystalline silicon

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6802, 2000, Pages 358-361

  Grom, G F ^a   Lockwood, D J ^b   McCaffrey, J P ^b   Labbe H J ^b   Fauchet, P M ^a   White Jr , B ^c   Diener, J ^d   Kovalev, D ^d   Koch, F ^d   Tsybeskov, L ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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SILICON;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0034699520     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35030062     Document Type: Article

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