The Emergence of Quantum Confinement in Atomic Quantum Clusters

Colloidal Foundations of Nanoscience

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 81-105

  Pineiro Y ^a   Rivas, J ^a,b   Lopez Quintela M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Noble metal clusters; Quantum confinement; Subnanometric scale

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

ATOMIC CLUSTERS; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; NANO SCALE; NOBLE METAL CLUSTERS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM CLUSTERS; SUBNANOMETRIC SCALE;

ATOMS;

EID: 84904237083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59541-6.00004-7     Document Type: Chapter

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