Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Determination of Single Nanocrystal Core Sizes via Correlation with Mass Spectrometry

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3772-3776

  Bigioni, T P ^a,c   Schaaff, T G ^b   Wyrwas, R B ^a   Harrell, L E ^a,d   Whetten, R L ^a   First, P N ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELLIPSOMETRY; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PASSIVATION; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DISCRETE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE NANOCRYSTAL CORE SIZES; VOLTAGE DIVISION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 1842788749     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp0376931     Document Type: Article

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