First-principles step- and kink-formation energies on cu(111)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 11118-11122

  Feibelman, P ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 0001452924     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.11118     Document Type: Article

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