Thermal diffusion processes in metal-tip-surface interactions: Contact formation and adatom mobility

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 25, 1996, Pages 5067-5070

  Sørensen, Mads R ^a   Jacobsen, Karsten W ^a,b   Jónsson, Hannes ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 6244271468     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.5067     Document Type: Article

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