A facet is not an island: Step-step interactions and the fluctuations of the boundary of a crystal facet

Surface Science

Volumn 598, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages

  Pimpinelli, Alberto ^a,b   Degawa, M ^a   Einstein, T L ^a   Williams, Ellen D ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Morphology; Single crystal surfaces: curved surfaces; Stepped surfaces; Surface structure

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; FUNCTIONS;

FACET; SCALING LAW; SINGLE-CRYSTAL SURFACES: CURVED SURFACES; STEP-STEP INTERACTIONS; STEPPED SURFACES;

SURFACE PHENOMENA;

EID: 28244473645     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2005.09.023     Document Type: Article

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