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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 853021, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/853021
Research Article
Study of High Quality Indium Nitride Films Grown on Si(100) Substrate by RF-MOMBE with GZO and AlN Buffer Layers
1Instrument Technology Research Center, National Applied Research Laboratories, 20 R&D Road VI, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, 30076, Taiwan
2Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan
Received 17 September 2012; Revised 22 November 2012; Accepted 22 November 2012
Academic Editor: Li Li
Copyright © 2012 Wei-Chun Chen and Shou-Yi Kuo. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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