Spontaneous domain switching during phase separation of Pb on Ge(111)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Sato, Y ^a,b   Chiang, S ^a   Bartelt, N C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DOMAIN WALLS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LEAD; PHASE SEPARATION;

NANOMETER-SCALE DOMAINS; PHASE SEPARATION MECHANISM; SPONTANEOUS DOMAIN SWITCHING;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34548384238     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.096103     Document Type: Article

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