Irregular variations in the melting point of size-selected atomic clusters

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6682, 1998, Pages 238-240

  Schmidt, Martin ^a   Kusche, Robert ^a   Von Issendorff, Bernd ^a   Haberland, Hellmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALORIMETER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032554922     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/30415     Document Type: Article

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