Defect-mediated condensation of a charge density wave

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5436, 1999, Pages 2107-2110

  Weitering, Hanno H ^a,b   Carpinelli, Joseph M ^a,b   Melechko, Anatoli V ^a,b   Zhang, Jiandi ^c   Bartkowiak, Miroslaw ^a,b   Plummer, E Ward ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; DENSITY; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0032842382     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5436.2107     Document Type: Article

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24. We thank T. Einstein, T. Lubensky, and K. Terakura for enlightening discussions. This work was supported by the NSF under grants NSF-DMR 9705246 (H.H.W.) and NSF-DMR 9801830 (E.W.P.). Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-96OR22464.