Low-temperature tunneling spectroscopy of Ge(111)c(2x8) surfaces

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Feenstra, R M ^a   Gaan, S ^a   Meyer, G ^b,d   Rieder, K H ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 20144372640     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.125316     Document Type: Article

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