From embedded nanoislands to thin films: Topographic and optical properties of europium oxide on MgO(001) films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Stavale, Fernando ^a   Pascua, Leandro ^a   Nilius, Niklas ^a   Freund, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

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EID: 84865682927     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.085448     Document Type: Article

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