Room-temperature Domain-epitaxy of Copper Iodide Thin Films for Transparent CuI/ZnO Heterojunctions with High Rectification Ratios Larger than 109

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yang, Chang ^a   Kneiß, Max ^a   Schein, Friedrich Leonhard ^a   Lorenz, Michael ^a   Grundmann, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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EID: 84959377832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21937     Document Type: Article

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