Prediction of thickness limits of ideal polar ultrathin films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Zhong, Zhicheng ^a,b   Koster, G ^a   Kelly, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 84859023522     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.121411     Document Type: Article

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