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Title: Visualizing Uniaxial-strain Manipulation of Antiferromagnetic Domains in Fe1+YTe Using a Spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Award ID(s):
1654482
NSF-PAR ID:
10094769
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Visualized Experiments
Issue:
145
ISSN:
1940-087X
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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