Argon is an inert gas in group VIII A of the periodic table with atomic number 18, an atomic weight of 39.948, and a density of 1.40 Mg/m 3. In the solid state it forms an fcc crystal with a melting ...

Indeed, the study demonstrated that perovskite films quenched with helium, as the lightest gas, and argon, as the heaviest, had larger grain sizes and were “very stable” under operational ...

The multi-mode gas cluster ion source (GCIS) is designed to operate in both Ar n + cluster and Ar + monatomic ... It is now widely accepted to use large argon clusters for sputter depth profiling ...