Modelling of cluster emission from metal surfaces under ion impact

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1814, 2004, Pages 177-194

  Betz, G ^a   Husinsky, W ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cluster emission; Computer simulation; Ion bombardment; Molecular dynamics; Sputtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346801823     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1302     Document Type: Article

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