Role of lattice vibrations in adatom diffusion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1086-1089

  Kürpick, Ulrike ^a   Kara, Abdelkader ^a   Rahman, Talat S ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; COPPER; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HELIUM; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; SILVER; SURFACES;

ATOM SCATTERING; EMBEDDED ATOM METHOD; HOPPING MECHANISM; SELF DIFFUSION; TRANSITION STATE THEORY;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 0031078555     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1086     Document Type: Article

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