Universal Binding Energy Curves for Metals and Bimetallic Interfaces

31 August 1981

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 47 (9) , 675-678
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.675

Abstract

We provide evidence for a universal relationship between metallic binding energies and lattice parameters. By a simple scaling of a universal relationship, one can obtain binding energies as a function of atomic separation for bimetallic interfaces and bulk metals.

Keywords

LATTICE PARAMETER
NUCLEAR BINDING ENERGY
SOLID STATE PHYSICS
ELECTRON DENSITY
BINDING ENERGY
ATOMIC STRUCTURE
INTERSTITIALS

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