Bonding in Cu, Ag, and Au Clusters: Relativistic Effects, Trends, and Surprises

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Häkkinen, Hannu ^a   Moseler, Michael ^b   Landman, Uzi ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BINDING ENERGY; BONDING; COPPER; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GOLD; GROUND STATE; IONS; ISOMERS; KINETIC ENERGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SILVER;

PHOTOABSORPTION SPECTRUM;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037100924     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.033401     Document Type: Article

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