Identifying the forces responsible for self-organization of nanostructures at crystal surfaces

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6716, 1999, Pages 238-241

  Pohl, K ^a   Bartelt, M C ^a   De La Figuera, J ^a   Bartelt, N C ^a   Hrbek, J ^a,b   Hwang, R Q ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MONOLAYERS; RUTHENIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

INTERATOMIC INTERACTIONS; SURFACE DEFECTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

RUTHENIUM; SILVER; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL STATE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033590444     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16667     Document Type: Article

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