Subatomic movements of a domain wall in the Peieris potential

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6968, 2003, Pages 812-816

  Novoselov, K S ^a   Geim, A K ^a   Dubonos, S V ^b   Hill, E W ^a   Grigorieva, I V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY AND HIGH PURITY MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); NUCLEAR ENERGY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

DOMAIN-WALL PROPAGATION;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

SCIENCE IN GENERAL;

ARTICLE; COLOR; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; LIGHT; MAGNETISM; MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 0346096510     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02180     Document Type: Article

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