Revisiting the Al/Al 2 O 3 interface: Coherent interfaces and misfit accommodation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pilania, Ghanshyam ^a   Thijsse, Barend J ^b   Hoagland, Richard G ^a   LaziÄ, Ivan ^b   Valone, Steven M ^a   Liu, Xiang Yang ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84897056105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04485     Document Type: Article

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