Morphology of monolayer MgO films on Ag(100): Switching from corrugated islands to extended flat terraces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Pal, Jagriti ^a,b   Smerieri, Marco ^a   Celasco, Edvige ^a,b   Savio, Letizia ^a   Vattuone, Luca ^a,b   Rocca, Mario ^a,b  

^a IMEM CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIA; MONOLAYERS; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE FILMS; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

CRYSTAL TEMPERATURES; FLAT TERRACES; GROWTH PARAMETERS; METAL FLUXES; MONOLAYER THICKNESS; OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE; ULTRA-THIN; ULTRA-THIN OXIDE LAYERS;

SILVER;

MAGNESIUM OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILVER; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84897414258     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.126102     Document Type: Article

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