Influence of morphology of islands and of mobile clusters on island formation in molecular-beam epitaxy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Lee, Sang B ^a,b  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

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EID: 33144455990     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.035437     Document Type: Article

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