Building Pb Nanomesas with Atomic-Layer Precision

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Jiang, C S ^a   Li, S C ^b   Yu, H B ^a   Eom, D ^a   Wang, X D ^a   Ebert, Ph ^c   Jia, J F ^b   Xue, Q K ^b   Shin, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR RINGS; ENERGY BARRIERS; TUNNELING CURRENTS; TUNNELING VOLTAGE;

DIFFUSION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LEAD; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

METALLIC SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 84884348862     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.106104     Document Type: Article

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