Nonstandard roughness of terraced surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3894-3897

  Gheorghiu, Stefan ^a   Pfeifer, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Institute for Physical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COPPER; DIFFUSION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE STRUCTURE; WETTING;

CANTOR STAIRCASE; TERRACED SURFACES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0034292642     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3894     Document Type: Article

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