Island nucleation in thin-film epitaxy: A first-principles investigation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 5371-5374

  Fichthorn, Kristen A ^a   Scheffler, Matthias ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

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EID: 0000151371     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5371     Document Type: Article

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