Mound formation and slope selection in irreversible fcc (111) growth

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Borovikov, Valery ^a   Amar, Jacques G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

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EID: 33644937631     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.085460     Document Type: Article

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33. Here we assume that the diffusion length lD is sufficiently large, compared to the terrace length l. However, when lD ≤l, the surface current may be modified by the presence of the islands nucleating on the terrace.