Stability-instability transitions in silicon crystal growth

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 3237-3240

  Finnie, P ^a,b   Homma, Y ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

ISLAND NUCLEATION; KINETIC ANISOTROPY; STABILITY INSTABILITY TRANSITIONS;

STABILITY;

EID: 0034301882     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3237     Document Type: Article

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