journal article·2024-11

Environmental stability and ageing of ScN thin films from XPS Ar+ depth profiling

Stanislav Cichoň, Joris More-Chevalier, Urszula D. Wdowik, Esther de Prado, Jiří Bulíř, Michal Novotný, Ladislav Fekete, Jan Duchoň, Dominik Legut, Ján Lančok

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