Atomic-scale perspective on the origin of attractive step interactions on Si(113)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Ciobanu, Cristian V ^a   Tambe, Dhananjay T ^a   Shenoy, Vivek B ^a   Wang, Cai Zhuang ^b   Ho, Kai Ming ^b  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; EMPIRICISM; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0346154842     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.201302     Document Type: Article

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