Homogeneous Nucleation Catastrophe as a Kinetic Stability Limit for Superheated Crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 4474-4477

  Lu, K ^a   Li, Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 0000190951     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4474     Document Type: Article

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