Kink plateau dynamics in finite-size lubricant chains

Surface Science

Volumn 601, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3682-3686

  Cesaratto, Marco ^a   Manini, Nicola ^a   Vanossi, Andrea ^b   Tosatti, Erio ^c,d   Santoro, Giuseppe E ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lubrication; Nanofriction; Nonlinear dynamics; Solitons; Tribology

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SOLITONS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TRIBOLOGY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COMMENSURATE LATTICE; FINITE SIZE LUBRICANT CHAINS; HARMONIC CHAINS; KINK PLATEAU DYNAMICS; LUBRICANT STIFFNESS; VELOCITY QUANTIZATION PHENOMENA;

SOLID LUBRICANTS;

EID: 34548640494     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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