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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 85, Issue 17, Pages 3560-3563Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3560
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We report a study of the thermodynamic properties of indium clusters on a SiNx surface during the early stages of thin film growth using a sensitive nanocalorimetry technique. The measurements reveal the presence of abnormal discontinuities in the heat of melting below 100 degreesC, These discontinuities, for which temperature separation corresponds to a spatial periodicity equal to the thickness of an indium monolayer, are found to be related to the atomic magic numbers, i.e., the number of atoms necessary to form a complete shell of atoms at particle surface.
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