Enhancement of low-energy electron emission in 2D radioactive films

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 904-907

  Pronschinske, Alex ^a   Pedevilla, Philipp ^b   Murphy, Colin J ^a   Lewis, Emily A ^a   Lucci, Felicia R ^a   Brown, Garth ^c   Pappas, George ^c   Michaelides, Angelos ^b   Sykes, E Charles H ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PERKINELMER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; ISOTOPES; RADIATION DAMAGE; RADIOACTIVITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THICK FILMS;

BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; EXTERNAL STIMULATION; HIGH ENERGY RADIATION; IONIZING PARTICLES; LOW ENERGY ELECTRONS; NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATIONS; STRUCTURE SIMULATIONS; TARGETED NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; GOLD; IODINE;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON;

BETA PARTICLES; ELECTRONS; GOLD; IODINE ISOTOPES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84939650983     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4323     Document Type: Article

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