Electronic and electrostatic properties of polar oxide nanostructures: MgO(111) islands on Au(111)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Nilius, Niklas ^a   Benedetti, Stefania ^b   Pan, Yi ^a   Myrach, Philipp ^a   Noguera, Claudine ^c   Giordano, Livia ^d   Goniakowski, Jacek ^c  

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

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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EID: 84869059000     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.205410     Document Type: Article

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