Insight into the photoinduced phenomena in ternary Ge-Sb-Se sputtered thin films

Tomáš Halenkovič; Magdaléna Kotrla; Jan Gutwirth; Virginie Nazabal; Petr Němec

doi:10.1364/PRJ.460552

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