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Single Crystal Fabrication/Orientation

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The production of small spherical single crystals from Au wire provides a convenient way of doing STM) experiments on the various single crystal plane facets which are exposed on the surface (Maksymovych in private communication [1]).

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Yates, J.T. (2015). Single Crystal Fabrication/Orientation. In: Experimental Innovations in Surface Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17668-0_16

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