Orientation dependence of the Cu(001) surface step stiffness: Failure of solid-on-solid and Ising models to describe experimental data

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1214101-1214104

  Dieluweit, Sabine ^a   Ibach, Harald ^a   Giesen, Margret ^a   Einstein, T L ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RIGIDITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0038558468     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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