Electronic shell structure of group-IIIA metal atomic clusters
- 21 May 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (21) , 2539-2542
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.2539
Abstract
Ionization potentials of and clusters (n6, there is clear evidence of electron shell filling, yet substantial deviations from shell-model predictions remain. Crystal-field effects are considered the most probable source of symmetry breaking and give insight to cluster structure.
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