High performance of Mn-Co-Ni-O spinel nanofilms sputtered from acetate precursors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Huang, Zhiming ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Ouyang, Cheng ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Zhang, Fei ^a   Huang, Jingguo ^a   Gao, Yanqing ^a   Chu, Junhao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84930944288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10899     Document Type: Article

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