Pit assisted oxygen chemisorption on GaN surfaces

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 15201-15208

  Mishra, Monu ^a,b   Shibin Krishna, T C ^a,b   Aggarwal, Neha ^a,b   Kaur, Mandeep ^a   Singh, Sandeep ^a   Gupta, Govind ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

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EID: 84930625557     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5cp00540j     Document Type: Article

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