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HfS2thin films deposited at room temperature by an emerging technique, solution atomic layer deposition. / Cao, Yuanyuan; Zhu, Sha; Bachmann, Julien.

In: Dalton Transactions, Vol. 50, No. 37, 07.10.2021, p. 13066-13072.

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Cao, Yuanyuan ; Zhu, Sha ; Bachmann, Julien. / HfS2thin films deposited at room temperature by an emerging technique, solution atomic layer deposition. In: Dalton Transactions. 2021 ; Vol. 50, No. 37. pp. 13066-13072.

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