Electron coherence in a melting lead monolayer

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5705, 2004, Pages 2221-2224

  Baumberger, F ^a,b   Auwarter W ^a,c   Greber, T ^a   Osterwalder, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI SURFACE; LIQUID METALS; MELTING; MONOLAYERS;

ATOMIC WAVE FUNCTIONS; SINGLE-PARTICLE SPECTRAL FUNCTION;

LEAD;

COPPER;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; FILM; MELTING POINT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 11144335290     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103984     Document Type: Article

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