Ostwald ripening of two-dimensional islands on Si(001)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 11741-11751

  Bartelt, N ^a   Theis, W ^b   Tromp, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000795873     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.11741     Document Type: Article

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