Vacancy Clusters on Surfaces of Au Nanoparticles Embedded in MgO
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Jun Xu,1 A. P. Mills, Jr.,2 A. Ueda,3 D. O. Henderson,3 R. Suzuki,4 and S. Ishibashi4 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6142 2Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 3Chemical Physics Laboratory, Physics Department, Fisk University, 1000 17th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37208 4Electrotechnical Laboratory, 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan (Received 20 January 1999; revised manuscript received 2 September 1999)
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