Strontium migration assisted by oxygen vacancies in SrTiO3 from classical and quantum mechanical simulations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Walsh, Aron ^a   Catlow, C Richard A ^b   Smith, Alastair G H ^b   Sokol, Alexey A ^b   Woodley, Scott M ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79961154921     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.220301     Document Type: Article

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