Low temperature disordered phase of α-Pb/Ge(111)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Guo, Jiandong ^a   Shi, Junren ^b   Plummer, E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED ELECTRON MATERIALS; FEEDBACK CURRENTS; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS;

GERMANIUM; LEAD; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; METALLIC FILMS; MONOLAYERS; PHONONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 18144416947     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.036105     Document Type: Article

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