Strain engineering induced interfacial self-assembly and intrinsic exchange bias in a manganite perovskite film

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cui, B ^a   Song, C ^a   Wang, G Y ^a   Mao, H J ^a   Zeng, F ^a   Pan, F ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84894828481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02542     Document Type: Article

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