Atomically defined templates for epitaxial growth of complex oxide thin films

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 94, 2014, Pages

  Dral, A Petra ^a   Dubbink, David ^a   Nijland, Maarten ^a   ten Elshof, Johan E ^a   Rijnders, Guus ^a   Koster, Gertjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Epitaxy; Issue 94; Langmuir Blodgett; Nanosheets; Oxides; Perovskites; Single termination; Substrates; Surface treatment; Thin films

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917695115     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52209     Document Type: Article

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