Intermixing of intrabasin and interbasin diffusion of a single Ag atom on Si(111)-(7×7)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 26, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Kedong ^a,b   Chen, Gang ^b   Zhang, Chun ^b   Loy, M M T ^b   Xiao, Xudong ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILICON; SILVER; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

AG ATOMS; HALF UNIT CELLS; SI(111); TIME CHARACTERISTICS; TUNNELING CURRENTS; UNIT CELLS;

ATOMS;

EID: 58149483670     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.266107     Document Type: Article

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