Local zero-bias anomaly in tunneling spectra of a transition-metal oxide thin film
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Emile D. L. Rienks,1 Niklas Nilius,1,* Livia Giordano,2 Jacek Goniakowski,3 Gianfranco Pacchioni,2 Marcella P. Felicissimo,1 Thomas Risse,1 Hans-Peter Rust,1 and Hans-Joachim Freund1 1Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany 2Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Universitá di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi, 53, I-20125 Milano, Italy 3Groupe de Physique des Solides, UMR 7588 CNRS and Universités Paris 6-Paris 7 Campus de Boucicaut, 140 Rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France Received 10 October 2006; revised manuscript received 24 December 2006; published 31 May 2007
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تاریخ انتشار 2007