Unstable epitaxy on vicinal surfaces

Surface Science

Volumn 369, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 393-402

  Rost, Martin ^a,b   Šmilauer, Pavel ^a,c   Krug, Joachim ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Growth; Models of surface kinetics; Molecular beam epitaxy; Surface diffusion; Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography; Vicinal single crystal surfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MORPHOLOGY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

ISOTROPIC MOUND MORPHOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; VICINAL SINGLE CRYSTAL SURFACES;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 0030381457     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(96)00905-3     Document Type: Article

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