Quasicrystalline structure formation in a classical crystalline thin-film system

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7470, 2013, Pages 215-218

  Förster, Stefan ^a   Meinel, Klaus ^a   Hammer, René ^a   Trautmann, Martin ^a   Widdra, Wolf ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BARIUM TITANATE; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FILM; OXIDE; PERIODICITY; PEROVSKITE; PLATINUM; SUBSTRATE; TITANATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FILM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84885663485     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12514     Document Type: Article

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