Reentrant morphological instability of epitaxial islands

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 17016-17022

  Ferrando, Riccardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

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EID: 0009367611     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.17016     Document Type: Article

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