New insights into the diverse electronic phases of a novel vanadium dioxide polymorph: A terahertz spectroscopy study

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lourembam, James ^a   Srivastava, Amar ^b   La O Vorakiat, Chan ^a   Rotella, H ^b   Venkatesan, T ^b   Chia, Elbert E M ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84924956055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09182     Document Type: Article

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