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Special features of thermionic emission properties of single crystals of GdB4 and GdB6

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  1. Khar'kov Aviation Institute, USSR

    K. Ostrovskii, A. A. Taran, A. V. Kovalev, V. F. Tkachenko, E. M. Dudnik & A. A. Matvienko

  2. Institute of Problems of Materials Science, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev

    K. Ostrovskii, A. A. Taran, A. V. Kovalev, V. F. Tkachenko, E. M. Dudnik & A. A. Matvienko

  3. Monokristallreaktiv Scientific and Production Organization, USSR

    K. Ostrovskii, A. A. Taran, A. V. Kovalev, V. F. Tkachenko, E. M. Dudnik & A. A. Matvienko

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Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, No. 3(327), pp. 75–80, March, 1990.

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Ostrovskii, K., Taran, A.A., Kovalev, A.V. et al. Special features of thermionic emission properties of single crystals of GdB4 and GdB6 . Powder Metall Met Ceram 29, 237–240 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00797970

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