Electronic properties of the leaky quantum-well system Ag(111)/Au/Ag

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 10800-10806

  McMahon, W ^a   Miller, T ^a   Chiang, T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0000577302     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.10800     Document Type: Article

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