Step-edge versus interior barriers to atom incorporation at lattice steps

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Oh, Sang Mun ^a,b   Kyuno, Kentaro ^b   Wang, Shi Cai ^a   Ehrlich, Gert ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0037441290     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.075413     Document Type: Article

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