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Daesu Lee1, Sang Mo Yang, Jong-Gul Yoon

  • 1IBS-Center for Functional Interfaces of Correlated Electron Systems, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea.

Nano Letters
|November 30, 2012
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