Effect of grain orientations of Cu seed layers on the growth of <111>-oriented nanotwinned Cu

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Chien Min ^a   Lin, Han Wen ^a   Lu, Chia Ling ^a   Chen, Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84906545785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06123     Document Type: Article

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