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Electronic shell structures are observed for the first time in large gallium and aluminum clusters. In gallium, the electronic shells extend up to 7000 electrons and a nice supershell structure is obtained around 2500 electrons. This number is considerably larger than expected from standard jellium calculations and is consistent with the introduction of a small surface softness. In aluminum, the clusters are more rigid and in usual experimental conditions they have specific geometric arrangement. However by heating the source nozzle, we obtain liquid-like aluminum clusters and observe the electronic shell structure up to 1800 electrons.
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Pellarin, M., Baguenard, B., Bordas, C., Lermé, J., Vialle, J.L., Broyer, M. (1995). Electronic shells and supershells in large trivalent metal clusters. In: Anagnostatos, G.S., von Oertzen, W. (eds) Atomic and Nuclear Clusters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79696-8_5
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