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Prediction of uncompensated polarity in ultrathin films

Jacek Goniakowski1, Claudine Noguera, Livia Giordano

  • 1Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, Universités Paris 6-7 and UMR CNRS 7588, 140, rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France.

Physical Review Letters
|August 7, 2007
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