Modeling of island formation during submonolayer deposition: A stochastic geometry-based simulation approach

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 629-657

  Li, Maozhi ^a   Evans, J W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Capture zone; Diffusion; Epitaxial growth; Island formation; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CAPTURE ZONE; GEOMETRY BASED SIMULATION (GBS) APPROACH; ISLAND FORMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 24644442327     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040606569     Document Type: Article

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