A form of bulk silicon consisting of "magic" clusters

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 3810-3812

  Grass, M ^a   Fischer, D ^a,b   Mathes, M ^a   Gantefor G ^a   Nielaba, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; DEFECTS; GROUND STATE; IONS; KINETIC ENERGY; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOEMISSION; PHOTONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SILICON; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SILICON CLUSTERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0037065105     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1514827     Document Type: Article

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