High-quality EuO thin films the easy way via topotactic transformation

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mairoser, Thomas ^a   Mundy, Julia A ^b   Melville, Alexander ^b   Hodash, Daniel ^b   Cueva, Paul ^b   Held, Rainer ^b   Glavic, Artur ^c   Schubert, Jürgen ^d   Muller, David A ^b   Schlom, Darrell G ^b   Schmehl, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; EUROPIUM MONOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL; FILM; ORIENTATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FILM; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRA HIGH VACUUM; VACUUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84937571974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8716     Document Type: Article

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