Preparation and optical bandgap of Mg2Si film deposited by electron beam evaporation

XIAO Qing-Quan; FANG Di; ZHAO Ke-Jie; LIAO YANG-Fang; CHEN Qian; XIE Quan

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2017.02.013

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