Kinetic pathway for the formation of Fe nanowires on stepped Cu(111) surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Mo, Yina ^a   Varga, Kalman ^b,c   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC PATHWAYS; NANOWIRES; ONE DIMENSIONAL (1D) ELECTRON SYSTEMS; SPIN TRANSPORT;

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL BONDS; COPPER; DIFFUSION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE REACTIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 18144406174     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.155503     Document Type: Article

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