X-ray reflectivity studies of atomic-level surface-segregation in a liquid eutectic alloy of AuSn
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Venkatachalapathy S. K. Balagurusamy,1 Reinhard Streitel,1 Oleg G. Shpyrko,2 P. S. Pershan,1 Mati Meron,3 and Binhua Lin3 1Department of Physics and DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 3CARS, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA Received 27 November 2006; revised manuscript received 2 February 2007; published 29 March 2007
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