Silicon Reactivity at the Ag(111) Surface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Satta, Mauro ^a   Colonna, Stefano ^b   Flammini, Roberto ^b   Cricenti, Antonio ^b   Ronci, Fabio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILICON;

AG ATOMS; AG(111); AG(111) SURFACE; EXCHANGE MECHANISM; MODELIZATION; NUCLEATION PROCESS; SILICENE;

SILVER;

EID: 84937945237     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.026102     Document Type: Article

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