Inhibiting adatom diffusion through surface alloying

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Zhengzheng ^a   Kioussis, Nicholas ^a   Tu, King Ning ^b   Ghoniem, Nasr ^c   Yang, Jenn Ming ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; ADATOM DIFFUSION; ADSORPTION SITE; ALLOY SURFACES; BLOCKING SITES; ELECTRONIC NATURES; EXPERIMENTAL SUGGESTION; KINETIC MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION; SURFACE ALLOYING; SURFACE INTERACTIONS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

ADATOMS; ADSORPTION; ALLOYING; BINDING SITES; TIN;

ATOMS;

EID: 77954304746     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.015703     Document Type: Article

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