Molecular symmetry governs surface diffusion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Sonnleitner, Tobias ^a   Swart, Ingmar ^a   Pavliček, Niko ^a   Pöllmann, Andreas ^a   Repp, Jascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATERAL MOTION; MOLECULAR SYMMETRY; NONTHERMAL; SELECTION RULES; SYMMETRY PRINCIPLES;

MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE POTENTIAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ISOMERS;

EID: 80155143213     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.186103     Document Type: Article

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