Changing shapes in the nanoworld

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 110-113

  Combe, Nicolas ^a   Jensen, Pablo ^a   Pimpinelli, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; FREE ENERGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; REACTION KINETICS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

ATOMIC SURFACE DIFFUSION; NANOWORLD; ROUGHENING TEMPERATURE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 2442635618     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.110     Document Type: Article

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