Quasiwetting and morphological phase transitions in confined far-from-equilibrium magnetic thin films

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 6699-6704

  Candia, Julián ^a   Albano, Ezequiel V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISICOQUÍMICAS TEÓRICAS Y APLICADAS INIFTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FILM GROWTH; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WETTING;

FINIT-SIZE EFFECTS; INTERFACE GROWTH MECHANISMS; LOCALIZATION-DELOCALIZATION TRANSITION; QUASIWETTING; SURFACE MAGNETIC FIELDS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMIT;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0037044522     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1511725     Document Type: Article

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