Melting of Submonolayer Krypton Films on Graphite
- 2 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (14), 961-964
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.41.961
Abstract
We present the results of a detailed x-ray scattering study of submonolayer krypton films physisorbed onto basal-plane surfaces of exfoliated graphite. Results illustrate that x-ray scattering may provide precise structural information about the solid and liquid phases of adsorbed films. For near-monolayer coverages, melting of the commensurate kypton solid appears to be a second-order transition with a critical exponent consistent with a Potts lattice-gas model of the melting process.
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