Surface lifetimes of Ga and growth behavior on GaN (0001) surfaces during molecular beam epitaxy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2879-2881

  Guha, S ^a   Bojarczuk, N A ^a   Kisker, D W ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 0000217798     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.117349     Document Type: Article

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