Scanning-tunneling spectroscopy of surface-state electrons scattered by a slightly disordered two-dimensional dilute "solid": Ce on Ag(111)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Ternes, Markus ^a   Weber, Cédric ^b   Pivetta, Marina ^a   Patthey, François ^a   Pelz, Jonathan P ^c   Giamarchi, Thierry ^d   Mila, Frédéric ^a   Schneider, Wolf Dieter ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT ROMAND DE RECHERCHE NUMÉRIQUE EN PHYSIQUE DES MATÉRIAUX IRRMA   (Switzerland)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CERIUM; CHEMICAL BONDS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE SPECTRA; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATES (LDOS); TIGHT BINDING (TB);

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 19644401390     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.146805     Document Type: Article

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