From meandering to faceting, is step flow growth ever stable?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 226103/1-226103/4

  Neel N ^a   Maroutian, T ^a   Douillard, L ^a   Ernst, H J ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; COPPER; DEPOSITION; DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

BUNCHING INSTABILITY; HELIUM ATOM BEAM DIFFRACTION; HELIUM ATOM BEAM SCATTERING; KINETIC PATHWAYS;

GROWTH (MATERIALS);

EID: 0346058241     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.226103     Document Type: Article

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