Kinetics of submonolayer and multilayer epitaxial growth

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 208-222

  Amar, Jacques G ^a   Family, Fereydoon ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth mechanism; Monolayers; Multilayersepitaxy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; DIFFUSION; MONOLAYERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYERS; REACTION KINETICS; REFLECTION HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SURFACES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CRITICAL ISLAND SIZE; DYNAMICAL SCALING; GROWTH MECHANISM; INTERLAYER DIFFUSION BARRIER; ISLAND DENSITY; ISLAND SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LAYER DENSITIES; SURFACE WIDTH;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 0029779089     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-6090(95)06947-X     Document Type: Article

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