Weak antilocalization and disorder-enhanced electron interactions in annealed films of the phase-change compound GeSb 2Te 4

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Breznay, Nicholas P ^a   Volker, Hanno ^b   Palevski, Alexander ^c   Mazzarello, Riccardo ^b   Kapitulnik, Aharon ^a   Wuttig, Matthias ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84869072548     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.205302     Document Type: Article

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