Monte Carlo simulation of subsurface ordering kinetics in an fcc alloy model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Kessler, M ^a   Dieterich, W ^a   Majhofer, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; COPPER; GOLD; METAL;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORY;

EID: 0035883468     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.125412     Document Type: Article

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