How can we make stable linear monoatomic chains? Gold-cesium binary subnanowires as an example of a charge-transfer-driven approach to alloying

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Choi, Young Cheol ^a   Lee, Han Myoung ^a   Kim, Woo Youn ^a   Kwon, S K ^a   Nautiyal, Tashi ^b   Cheng, Da Yong ^a   Vishwanathan, K ^a   Kim, Kwang S ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CESIUM; CHARGE TRANSFER; GOLD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; WIRE;

GOLD WIRES; LINEAR MONOATOMIC CHAINS; METAL ALLOY WIRES; SUBNANOWIRES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33847057729     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.076101     Document Type: Article

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