High-energy phonon confinement in nanoscale metallic multilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Roldan Cuenya, B ^a   Keune, W ^a,b   Peters, R ^b   Schuster, E ^b   Sahoo, B ^b   Von Horsten U ^b   Sturhahn, W ^c   Zhao, J ^c   Toellner, T S ^c   Alp, E E ^c   Bader, S D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 42049100579     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.165410     Document Type: Article

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