journal article·2026-07

Ohmic contact formation at the Au/Sr3Ir2O7 interface

Peace Ikeoluwa Adegbite, M. Zaid Zaz, Yuanyuan Zhang, Takashi Komesu, Shiv Kumar, Amit Kumar, Yudai Miyai, Kenya Shimada, Xia Hong, Peter A. Dowben

Applied Physics A· Volume 132· Issue 7
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