Snell's Law for Surface Electrons: Refraction of an Electron Gas Imaged in Real Space

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 368031-368034

  Repp, Jascha ^a,b   Meyer, Gerhard ^a,b   Rieder, Karl Heinz ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BAND STRUCTURE; COPPER; EVAPORATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHASE SHIFT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPUTTERING; SURFACE PHENOMENA; XENON;

NEARLY FREE ELECTRONS (NFE); TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS (2DEG);

ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 1442331199     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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