Stability of reference masses V: UV/ozone treatment of gold and platinum surfaces

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-36

  Cumpson, Peter ^a   Sano, Naoko ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUS OF ATTENTION; METAL SURFACES; PLATINUM AND GOLD; PLATINUM SURFACE; UV/OZONE; UV/OZONE TREATMENT;

GOLD; PHOTOELECTRONS; PLATINUM;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84873368560     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/1/27     Document Type: Article

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