Step fluctuations on metals in contact with an electrolyte: A new access to dynamical processes at the solid/liquid interface

Surface Science

Volumn 384, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 168-178

  Giesen, Margret ^a   Dietterle, Michael ^b   Stapel, Dietmar ^a   Ibach, Harald ^a   Kolb, Dieter M ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrochemical methods; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Silver; Solid liquid interfaces; Surface diffusion; Vicinal single crystal surfaces

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTES; MASS TRANSFER; PHASE INTERFACES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ADATOMS; STEP FLUCTUATIONS;

SILVER;

EID: 0031185932     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(97)00213-6     Document Type: Article

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