Molecular dynamics investigation for thin film growth morphology of Ni/Ni(111)

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3431-3433

  Lee, Soon Gun ^a   Chung, Yong Chae ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Growth morphology; Molecular dynamics simulation; Ni Ni(111); Steering effect

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

GROWTH MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NI/NI (111); STEERING EFFECT;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 27744501074     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.858287     Document Type: Article

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