Metallicity and disorder at the alkali-metal/GaAs(001) interface

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2001, Pages

  Tereshchenko, O E ^a   Daineka, D V ^a   Paget, D ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METAL; ARSENIC; GALLIUM; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; REFLECTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035881072     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.085310     Document Type: Article

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