Accelerated coarsening of Ag adatom islands on Ag(111) due to trace amounts of S: Mass-transport mediated by Ag-S complexes

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Shen, Mingmin ^a   Liu, Da Jiang ^b   Jenks, C J ^b   Thiel, P A ^a,b,c   Evans, J W ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADATOMS; COARSENING; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SOIL CONSERVATION; SULFUR;

AG ADATOMS; CRITICAL VALUES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL; METAL MASS; REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; STEP EDGES; TRACE AMOUNTS;

SILVER;

EID: 62249180062     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3078033     Document Type: Article

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