Superheating and induced melting at semiconductor interfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 17, 2005, Pages

  Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^a   Wang, Tairan ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL SIMULATIONS; INDUCED MELTING; SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES; SUPERHEATING;

DIFFUSION; GERMANIUM; METAL MELTING; MONOLAYERS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 27144450541     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.175702     Document Type: Article

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