Stacking-fault nucleation on Ir(111)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 561031-561034

  Busse, Carsten ^a   Polop, Celia ^a   Müller, Michael ^b   Albe, Karsten ^b   Linke, Udo ^c   Michely, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STACKING FAULTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HOMOEPITAXY ISLANDS;

IRIDIUM;

EID: 0041416082     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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