Surface electronic structure of HfO2 resolved with low energy ion spectroscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Zenkevich, Andrei ^a   Lebedinskii, Yuri ^a   Pushkin, Mikhail ^a   Nevolin, Vladimir ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS; INELASTIC ENERGY LOSS;

HAFNIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33750453733     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2367659     Document Type: Article

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