Tetra Point Wetting at the Free Surface of Liquid Ga-Bi

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Huber, P ^a   Shpyrko, O G ^a   Pershan, P S ^a   Ocko, B M ^b   DiMasi, E ^b   Deutsch, M ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; FILMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; VAPORS; WETTING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

WETTING TRANSITIONS;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0037100759     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.035502     Document Type: Article

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