Optical recognition of atomic steps on surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Baumberger, F ^a   Herrmann, T ^b   Kara, A ^c   Stolbov, S ^c   Esser, N ^b   Rahman, T S ^c   Osterwalder, J ^a   Richter, W ^b   Greber, T ^a  

^a PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COPPER; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ATOMIC STEPS; OPTICAL RECOGNITION; REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY; REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY SPECTROSCOPY;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 5544222457     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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