Surface stress: Implications and measurements

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-57

  Sander, D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ab initio stress calculations; Adsorbate induced stress; Self organized pattern formation; Stress measurements; Surface alloying; Surface reconstruction; Surface stress

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SELF ASSEMBLY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

SURFACE PHENOMENA;

MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 0038502274     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0286(02)00137-7     Document Type: Article

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