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Thermal Oxidation of Gallium–Indium Selenide and the In–Ga–Sc–O Phase Diagram

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Balyts'kyi, O.O. Thermal Oxidation of Gallium–Indium Selenide and the In–Ga–Sc–O Phase Diagram. Materials Science 37, 684–688 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013249510616

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