Abstract
It is an intrinsic question whether or not the small metallic nanoclusters might have a structure different from the bulk structure. We observed a face-centered-cubic (fcc) structure for small Cr and Mo nanoclusters rather than a bulk body-centered-cubic (bcc) structure. We determined the critical cluster size (Formula presented) to be (Formula presented) for metallic Cr nanoclusters and the range of the (Formula presented) to be 1460-3900 for metallic Mo nanoclusters at which a structural transition from the fcc structure into the bulk bcc structure occurred.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2937-2943 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 2000 |