Equilibrium configurations and energetics of point defects in two-dimensional colloidal crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2001, Pages

  Pertsinidis, Alexandros ^a   Ling, X S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GROUND STATE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THERMAL EFFECTS; VECTORS;

COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

POINT DEFECTS;

EID: 0035959139     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.098303     Document Type: Article

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