From atomic kinks to mesoscopic surface patterns: Ionic layers on vicinal metal surfaces

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 1614091-1614094

  Folsch S ^a,b   Riemann, A ^a   Repp, J ^a,c   Meyer, G ^a,c   Rieder, K H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ION; METAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0037109973     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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