A numerical study of the epitaxial growth of silver on silver (1 1 0)

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 248, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 288-304

  Hontinfinde, F ^a,b,c   Ferrando, R ^a   Levi, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c IMSP(UNB)   (Benin)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Growth; Silver

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SILVER;

ADATOM DENSITY; ISLAND NUMBER DENSITY;

MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY;

EID: 0031649088     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00457-3     Document Type: Article

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