Journal of Experimental Physics
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 951297, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/951297
Research Article
Electrical Switching in Thin Film Structures Based on Molybdenum Oxides
Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk 185910, Russia
Received 21 May 2014; Revised 21 August 2014; Accepted 2 September 2014; Published 18 September 2014
Academic Editor: Tatyana Sizyuk
Copyright © 2014 A. L. Pergament et al. 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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