Highest electron affinity as a predictor of cluster anion structures

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-53

  Kronik, Leeor ^a   Fromherz, Roland ^b   Ko, Eunjung ^a   Ganteför, Gerd ^b   Chelikowsky, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ISOMERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CLUSTER PROPERTIES;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0041542504     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat704     Document Type: Article

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