Extracting site-specific reaction rates from steady state surface morphologies: Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of aqueous Si(111) etching

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 5542-5553

  Flidr, Jaroslav ^a   Huang, Yi Chiau ^b   Newton, Theresa A ^c   Hines, Melissa A ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

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EID: 0000910417     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.475944     Document Type: Article

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