adatom

English

Etymology

From ad- ‎ atom, meaning "adsorbed atom".

Noun

adatom (plural adatoms)

1. (materials science) An atom that lies on a crystal surface

   We studied silicon adatoms on the Si(100) surface.

   • 1999, Thomas F George, Daniel A Jelski, Computational Studies Of New Materials, page 339:

     An approach to help correct this involves an adcluster, consisting of an adatom (molecule) and cluster, which is "dipped" into the electron "background" of the substrate [24,25].

   • 1987, PDMS and Clusters, page 125:

     Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small.

Derived terms

• adatomic

Translations

atom that lies on a crystal surface

• Portuguese: adátomo m

See also

• adatom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aamodt, D'Amato, Damato, Tadoma

Hungarian

Etymology

adat ‎ -om (“my”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒdɒtom]
• Hyphenation: ada‧tom

Noun

adatom

1. first-person singular single-possession possessive of adat

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	adatom	—
accusative	adatomat	—
dative	adatomnak	—
instrumental	adatommal	—
causal-final	adatomért	—
translative	adatommá	—
terminative	adatomig	—
essive-formal	adatomként	—
essive-modal	adatomul	—
inessive	adatomban	—
superessive	adatomon	—
adessive	adatomnál	—
illative	adatomba	—
sublative	adatomra	—
allative	adatomhoz	—
elative	adatomból	—
delative	adatomról	—
ablative	adatomtól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	adatomé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	adatoméi	—