Interfacial coarsening dynamics in epitaxial growth with slope selection

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 6190-6214

  Moldovan, Dorel ^a   Golubovic, Leonardo ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); KINETIC THEORY; MORPHOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS; SOLIDS; STABILITY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACES; THIN FILMS; DYNAMICS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAMS;

INTERFACIAL COARSENING DYNAMICS; KINETIC SCALING THEORY; PYRAMIDS; THIN SOLID FILMS;

MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; COARSENING;

COARSENING DYNAMICS; COARSENING EXPONENTS; CRYSTALLINE SURFACES; INTERFACIAL DYNAMICS; MBE GROWTH; SCALING THEORIES; SLOPE SELECTION;

EID: 0034206470     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.6190     Document Type: Article

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