Nanostructure diffusion and aggregation on desorbing rare-gas solids: Slip on an incommensurate lattice

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Antonov, V N ^a   Palmer, J S ^a   Bhatti, A S ^a,b   Weaver, J H ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GAS DIFFUSION; HEAT TREATMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NANOPARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHONON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 2342593070     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.205418     Document Type: Article

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