Island sizes and capture zone areas in submonolayer deposition: Scaling and factorization of the joint probability distribution

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2354101-23541012

  Evans, J W ^a   Bartelt, M C ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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ACCURACY; ARTICLE; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0037116108     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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