Negatively Charged In-Plane and Out-Of-Plane Domain Walls with Oxygen-Vacancy Agglomerations in a Ca-Doped Bismuth-Ferrite Thin Film
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SUBMITTER: Haselmann U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8552442 | biostudies-literature |
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