Step stiffness and equilibrium island shape of Si(100) surface: Statistical-mechanical calculation by the imaginary path weight random-walk method

Surface Science

Volumn 376, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 92-98

  Akutsu, N ^a   Akutsu, Y ^b  

^a OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; Faceting; Ising model; Silicon; Surface roughening; Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography; Surface thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STIFFNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

FACETING; ISING MODEL;

SILICON;

EID: 0031120756     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(96)01302-7     Document Type: Article

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