Decay of isolated surface features driven by the Gibbs-Thomson effect in an analytic model and a simulation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1811-1823

  McLean, James G ^a   Krishnamachari, B ^a   Peale, D ^a   Chason, E ^b  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 0001165919     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.55.1811     Document Type: Article

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