Controlled atom by atom restructuring of a metal surface with the scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1512-1515

  Meyer, Gerhard ^a   Bartels, Ludwig ^a   Zöphel, Sven ^a   Henze, Erdmuth ^a   Rieder, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ATOMS; BINDING ENERGY; COPPER; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACES;

ADATOM VACANCY PAIR; ATOM SLIDING TECHNIQUE; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY; KINK SITES; SURFACE RESTRUCTURING;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031078693     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1512     Document Type: Article

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