Analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy images of the charge-density-wave phase in quasi-one-dimensional Rb0.3 Mo O3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Machado Charry, E ^a   Ordejon P ^a   Canadell, E ^a   Brun, C ^b   Wang, Z Z ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

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EID: 33750457973     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.155123     Document Type: Article

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