Steering liquid Pt-Si nanodroplets on Si(100) by interactions with surface steps

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Sutter, P ^a   Bennett, P A ^b   Flege, J I ^a   Sutter, E ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EUTECTICS; MONOLAYERS; PLATINUM; SILICON; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

LIQUID EUTECTICS; NANODROPLETS; PATTERNED SURFACES;

DROPS;

EID: 34648820333     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.125504     Document Type: Article

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