Self-organized nanotemplating on misfit dislocation networks investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 547-553

  Diaconescu, Bogdan ^a   Nenchev, Georgi ^a   Jones, Joshua ^b   Pohl, Karsten ^a  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b Andover Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Misfit dislocation network; Self assembly; STM; Strained metallic interfaces; Ultrathin films

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FILM GROWTH; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METAL SUBSTRATES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

DISLOCATION NETWORKS; METALLIC INTERFACES; MISFIT DISLOCATION NETWORK; NANOARRAYS; NANOTEMPLATING; ORDERING GROWTH; SELF ORDERING; SELF-ORGANISED; STM; STRAINED METALLIC INTERFACE;

ULTRATHIN FILMS;

GOLD; RUTHENIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; FILM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KINETICS; MICROSCOPE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34250336892     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20479     Document Type: Article

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