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Atomic Layer Deposition of Vanadium Dioxide and a Temperature-dependent Optical Model
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Persistent spectral-hole burning in the wide-gap semiconductor SiC doped with vanadium

R Kummer, C Hecht, A Winnacker

    Optics Letters
    |June 15, 1997
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