Epitaxial europium oxide on Ni(100) with single-crystal quality

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Förster, Daniel F ^a   Klinkhammer, Jürgen ^a   Busse, Carsten ^a   Altendorf, Simone G ^a   Michely, Thomas ^a   Hu, Zhiwei ^a,b   Chin, Yi Ying ^a,b   Tjeng, L H ^a,b   Coraux, Johann ^c   Bourgault, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

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EID: 79551672334     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.045424     Document Type: Article

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