Tunneling study of the charge-ordering gap on the surface of La0.350 Pr0.275 Ca0.375 Mn O3 thin films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Singh, Udai Raj ^a   Chaudhuri, S ^a   Choudhary, Shyam K ^a   Budhani, R C ^a   Gupta, Anjan K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

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EID: 37749032454     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.014404     Document Type: Article

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