Growth control of oxygen stoichiometry in homoepitaxial SrTiO 3 films by pulsed laser epitaxy in high vacuum

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lee, Ho Nyung ^a   Ambrose Seo, Sung S ^a,b   Choi, Woo Seok ^a,c   Rouleau, Christopher M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84956617000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19941     Document Type: Article

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