Stability of the tetrahedral motif for small gold clusters in the size range 16-24 atoms

Materials Science and Engineering: B

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-181

  Ford, M J ^a   Soule de Bas B ^a   Cortie, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Band gap; Gold cluster; Structure

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

DISORDERED STRUCTURES; GOLD CLUSTERS; TETRAHEDRAL CLUSTER;

GOLD;

EID: 34250746012     PISSN: 09215107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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