Bistability of nanoscale Ag islands on a Si(111)-(4×1)-in surface induced by anisotropic stress

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Li, Yaoyi ^a   Liu, Miao ^b   Ma, Dayan ^a,c   Yu, Decai ^b   Chen, Xi ^d   Ma, Xu Cun ^a   Xue, Qi Kun ^a,d   Xu, Kewei ^c   Jia, Jin Feng ^a,d   Liu, Feng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC STRESS; BI-STABILITY; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; ISLAND SHAPE; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANO SCALE; NANO-ISLANDS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SI (1 1 1); STABILITY REGIMES; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; SILVER;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 68949146054     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.076102     Document Type: Article

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