Sub-2 nm size and density tunable platinum nanoparticles using room temperature tilted-target sputtering

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2013, Pages

  Ramalingam, Balavinayagam ^a   Mukherjee, Somik ^a   Mathai, Cherian J ^a   Gangopadhyay, Keshab ^a,b   Gangopadhyay, Shubhra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Nanos Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE TRANSFORMATION; CRYSTALLINE PROPERTIES; DEPOSITION FLUXES; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; NANOPARTICLE GROWTHS; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; RF MAGNETRON SPUTTER DEPOSITIONS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COALESCENCE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEPOSITION; PLATINUM;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84876918725     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/20/205602     Document Type: Article

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