Nucleation and coarsening during epitaxy on a substrate subject to periodic strain: Spatial ordering and size uniformity

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 10323-10332

  Mattsson, Thomas R ^a   Metiu, Horia ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DEPOSITION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; SILVER; STRAIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COARSENING; SPATIAL ORDERING;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034514214     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1322627     Document Type: Article

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