Self-Affinity for the Growing Interface of Bacterial Colonies

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-72

  Wakita, Jun Ichi ^a   Itoh, Hiroto ^a   Matsuyama, Tohey ^b   Matsushita, Mitsugu ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial colony formation; Interface growth; Roughness exponent; Self affinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031532442     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.66.67     Document Type: Article

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