Self-organization of SrRuO3 nanowires on ordered oxide surface terminations

MRS Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-21

  Kuiper, Bouwe ^a   Blok, Jeroen L ^a   Zandvliet, Harold J w ^a   Blank, Dave H a ^a   Rijnders, Guus ^a   Koster, Gertjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84860263815     PISSN: 21596859     EISSN: 21596867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/mrc.2011.8     Document Type: Article

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