Repulsion-mediated step wandering on a Si(001) vicinal face

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Sato, Masahide ^a   Hirose, Yukio ^a   Uwaha, Makio ^b   Saito, Yukio ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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SILICON;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SIMULATION;

EID: 0038556887     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.125408     Document Type: Article

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