Anisotropic vanadium dioxide sculptured thin films with superior thermochromic properties

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sun, Yaoming ^a   Xiao, Xiudi ^a   Xu, Gang ^a   Dong, Guoping ^b   Chai, Guanqi ^a   Zhang, Hua ^a   Liu, Pengyi ^c   Zhu, Hanmin ^c   Zhan, Yongjun ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84885110124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02756     Document Type: Article

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