Nearly constant electrical resistance over large temperature range in Cu3 NMx(M = Cu, Ag, Au) compounds

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lu, Nianpeng ^a   Ji, Ailing ^a   Cao, Zexian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84887009196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03090     Document Type: Article

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