Irreversible nucleation in molecular beam epitaxy: From theory to experiments

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Politi, Paolo ^a,c   Castellano, Claudio ^b,d  

^a Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ^*

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY; MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORY;

EID: 0037441237     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.075408     Document Type: Article

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