Bonding trends and dimensionality crossover of gold nanoclusters on metal-supported MgO thin films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Ricci, Davide ^a   Bongiorno, Angelo ^a   Pacchioni, Gianfranco ^b   Landman, Uzi ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ELECTROSTATICS; GOLD; MAGNESIA; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THIN FILMS;

ADHESIVE BONDING; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTION; GOLD NANOCLUSTERS; METAL-SUPPORTED FILMS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33746237620     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.036106     Document Type: Article

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