Composition and crystallography dependence of the work function: Experiment and calculations of Pt-Al alloys

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Kornblum, Lior ^a   Shekhter, Pini ^a   Slovatizky, Yair ^a   Amouyal, Yaron ^a   Eizenberg, Moshe ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 84866368473     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.125305     Document Type: Article

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