Competing Classical and Quantum Effects in Shape Relaxation of a Metallic Island

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 25, 2002, Pages

  Okamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Chen, Dongmin ^a   Yamada, Toshishige ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MASS TRANSFER; MORPHOLOGY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

METALLIC ISLAND; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECT; SHAPE RELAXATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037122283     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.256101     Document Type: Article

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