Absolute orientation-dependent anisotropic TiN(111) island step energies and stiffnesses from shape fluctuation analyses

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Kodambaka, S ^a   Khare, S V ^a   Petrova, V ^a   Johnson, D D ^a   Petrov, I ^a   Greene, J E ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENERGY; MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0037437962     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.035409     Document Type: Article

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