Nanoscale quot;quantum quot; islands on metal substrates: Microscopy studies and electronic structure analyses

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3965-3993

  Han, Yong ^a   Ünal, Bariş ^a   Jing, Dapeng ^a   Thiel, Patricia A ^a   Evans, James W ^b   Liu, Da Jiang ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ag fe; Ag nial; Cu fe cu; DFT calculations; Films on quasicrystals; Metal nanofilms; Pb cu; Quantum islands; Quantum size effect; Stm

Indexed keywords

DFT CALCULATION; NANO FILMS; QUANTUM ISLANDS; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS; STM;

ALUMINUM; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FILM GROWTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUASICRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES;

METALS;

EID: 82755165741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3073965     Document Type: Article

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