Nucleation and submonolayer growth of C60 on KBr

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Burke, S A ^a   Mativetsky, J M ^a   Hoffmann, R ^a,b   Grutter P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING STRUCTURES; KINKS; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY (SFM); SUBMONOLAYERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INSULATING MATERIALS; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; NUCLEATION; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACES;

CARBON;

EID: 18144379194     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.096102     Document Type: Article

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