Investigation of the non-volatile resistance change in noncentrosymmetric compounds

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Herng, T S ^a   Kumar, A ^a   Ong, C S ^a   Feng, Y P ^a   Lu, Y H ^b   Zeng, K Y ^a   Ding, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84866067604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00587     Document Type: Article

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