Low-temperature growth morphology of singular and vicinal Ge(001)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 12536-12543

  Van Nostrand, Joseph E ^a   Chey, S Jay ^a   Cahill, David G ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0542422743     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.12536     Document Type: Article

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