Oxygen Vacancy-Tuned Physical Properties in Perovskite Thin Films with Multiple B-site Valance States

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Enriquez, Erik ^a   Chen, Aiping ^a   Harrell, Zach ^b   Dowden, Paul ^a   Koskelo, Nicholas ^a   Roback, Joseph ^a   Janoschek, Marc ^a   Chen, Chonglin ^b   Jia, Quanxi ^a,c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c The State University of New York   (United States)

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EID: 85017621140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep46184     Document Type: Article

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