Atomic Process of Point Contact in Gold Studied by Time-Resolved High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 4448-4451

  Kizuka, Tokushi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL LATTICES; GOLD; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPRESSIVE DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL RELAXATION; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 0032538715     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4448     Document Type: Article

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