Surface crystallization in a liquid AuSi alloy

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5783, 2006, Pages 77-80

  Shpyrko, Oleg G ^a,b   Streitel, Reinhard ^a   Balagurusamy, Venkatachalapathy S K ^a   Grigoriev, Alexei Y ^a   Deutsch, Moshe ^a   Ocko, Benjamin M ^c   Meron, Mati ^d   Lin, Binhua ^e   Pershan, Peter S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID METALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MONOLAYERS; SURFACE TREATMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLINE MONOLAYERS; NONDILUTE ALLOYS; SURFACE CRYSTALLIZATION; SURFACE MONOLAYERS;

GOLD ALLOYS;

ALLOY; GOLD DERIVATIVE; METAL; SILICON DERIVATIVE;

ALLOY; CRYSTALLIZATION; PHASE TRANSITION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FREEZING; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745926528     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128314     Document Type: Article

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