Design and capabilities of an experimental setup based on magnetron sputtering for formation and deposition of size-selected metal clusters on ultra-clean surfaces

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Hartmann, H ^a   Popok, V N ^b   Barke, I ^a   Von Oeynhausen, V ^a   Meiwes Broer, K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; CARBON SUBSTRATES; COMBINED ANALYSIS; COPPER CLUSTER; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; ELECTROSTATIC QUADRUPOLE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FACE CENTERED CUBIC LATTICE; HEIGHT ANALYSIS; METAL CLUSTER; NANOMETRES; SIZE-SELECTED CLUSTERS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPHERICAL SHAPE; STANDARD SIZE; SUPPORTED NANOPARTICLES;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MAGNETRON SPUTTERING;

EID: 84866862498     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4732821     Document Type: Review

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