Interactions between fluctuating steps on vicinal surfaces: Edge energy effects in reconstruction induced faceting

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1694-1697

  Liu, Da Jiang ^a   Weeks, John D ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

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EID: 0141641998     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1694     Document Type: Article

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