Spontaneous formation of nanometric multilayers of metal-carbon films by up-hill diffusion during growth

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Corbella, C ^a   Echebarria, B ^b   Ramirez Piscina L ^b   Pascual, E ^a   Andujar J L ^a   Bertran, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIFFUSION; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

METAL-CARBON FILMS; NANOMETRIC PERIODICITY; THIN-FILM GROWTH; UP-HILL DIFFUSION;

METALLIC FILMS;

EID: 27844492926     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2135385     Document Type: Article

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