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Patricia A. Thiel
Researcher at Iowa State University
Publications - 365
Citations - 12843
Patricia A. Thiel is an academic researcher from Iowa State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adsorption & Scanning tunneling microscope. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 364 publications receiving 12216 citations. Previous affiliations of Patricia A. Thiel include United States Department of Energy & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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The interaction of water with solid surfaces: Fundamental aspects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare and discuss recent experimental and theoretical results in the field of H2O-solid interactions, and emphasize studies of low (submonolayer) coverages of water on well-characterized, single-crystal surfaces of metals, semiconductors and oxides.
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Morphological evolution during epitaxial thin film growth: Formation of 2D islands and 3D mounds
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe submonolayer nucleation and growth of two-dimensional islands during deposition and show that the traditional mean-field treatment is quite successful in capturing the behavior of mean island densities, but it fails to predict island size distributions.
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The interaction of CO and Pt(100). I. Mechanism of adsorption and Pt phase transition
TL;DR: In this article, the CO/Pt(100) system was investigated and the mechanism of the adsorbate-induced Pt phase transition was explained, where the CO molecules occupied on top adsorption sites.
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Diffusion of Large Two-Dimensional Ag Clusters on Ag(100)
TL;DR: Scanning tunneling microscopy shows that large, two-dimensional Ag clusters on Ag(100) can diffuse, and this weak variation rules out periphery diffusion as the main mechanism of cluster diffusion, suggesting instead two- dimensional evaporation-condensation.
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The chemisorption of Co on Rh(111)
TL;DR: In this paper, the activation energy for first-order CO desorption is 31.6 kcal/mole (νd = 1013.6s−1) in the limit of zero coverage, and as CO coverage increases, a (√ 3 ×√3)R30u overlayer is produced and then destroyed with subsequent formation of an overlayer yielding a 2 × 2) LEED pattern in the full coverage limit.