Extreme lowering of the Debye temperature of Sn nanoclusters embedded in thermally grown SiO2 by low-lying vibrational surface modes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-7

  Koops, G E J ^a,b   Pattyn, H ^a   Vantomme, A ^a   Nauwelaerts, S ^a   Venegas, R ^a,c  

^a KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CRYSTAL; ELASTICITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

EID: 13944283254     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.235410     Document Type: Article

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