Step wandering due to the structural difference of the upper and the lower terraces

Surface Science

Volumn 550, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 149-165

  Kato, R ^a   Uwaha, M ^a   Saito, Y ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adatoms; Monte Carlo simulations; Silicon; Surface diffusion; Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography; Vicinal single crystal surfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; EVAPORATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFLECTION HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SILICON; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

STEP WANDERING; SURFACE DIFFUSION; VICINAL SINGLE CRYSTAL SURFACES;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EID: 0942278032     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2003.12.012     Document Type: Article

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