Monochromatic electron photoemission from diamondoid monolayers

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5830, 2007, Pages 1460-1462

  Yang, W L ^a,b   Fabbri, J D ^a   Willey, T M ^c   Lee, J R I ^c   Dahl, J E ^d   Carlson, R M K ^d   Schreiner, P R ^e   Fokin, A A ^e,f   Tkachenko, B A ^e   Fokina, N A ^e   Meevasana, W ^a   Mannella, N ^a,b   Tanaka, K ^a,b   Zhou, X J ^a,b   Van Buuren, T ^c   Kelly, M A ^a   Hussain, Z ^b   Melosh, N A ^a   Shen, Z X ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Chevron   (United States)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; KINETICS; MATERIALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 34250201895     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141811     Document Type: Article

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27. We acknowledge helpful discussions with Z. Liu, D.-H. Lee, and H. Padmore. W.L.Y. thanks Y. Y. Wang for sharing information on diamondoid film deposition and J. Pepper and S. DiMaggio for technical support. The work at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and the Advanced Light Source is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Science, Division of Material Science, under contracts DE-FG03-01ER45929-A001 and DE-AC03-765F00515, respectively. The work at Stanford is also supported by Chevron through the Stanford-Chevron Program on Diamondoid Nano-Science.