Asymptotic derivation of the glued-wetting-layer model and contact-angle condition for stranski-krastanow islands

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2011-2017

  Spencer, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 0001540757     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.2011     Document Type: Article

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