Probing defects in nitrogen-doped Cu2O

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Junqiang ^a   Mei, Zengxia ^a   Liu, Lishu ^a   Liang, Huili ^a   Azarov, Alexander ^b   Kuznetsov, Andrej ^b   Liu, Yaoping ^a   Ji, Ailing ^a   Meng, Qingbo ^a   Du, Xiaolong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 84922566571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07240     Document Type: Article

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