Kinetics of phase separation in thin films: Simulations for the diffusive case

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Das, Subir K ^a   Puri, Sanjay ^b   Horbach, Jürgen ^a   Binder, K ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; THIN FILMS; WETTING;

COARSENING REGIME; DIFFUSION-DRIVEN KINETICS; SURFACE-DIRECTED SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION (SDSD); THICK WETTING LAYERS;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 33244471072     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.061603     Document Type: Article

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