Silicon nanocrystal memories

Silicon Nanophotonics: Basic Principles, Current Status and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-244

  Dimitrakis, Panagiotis ^a   Normand, Pascal ^a   Tsoukalas, Dimitris ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 84880184815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4032/9789814241137     Document Type: Chapter

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