Two-dimensional roughening of adsorbate islands in thermodynamic equilibrium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Wintterlin, J ^a,b   Trost, J ^a,b   Schuster, R ^a,b   Eichler, A ^c   McEwen, J S ^d  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ADSORBATE ISLANDS; THIRD-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; THREE-BODY INTERACTION; THREE-BODY INTERACTIONS;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33646343009     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.166102     Document Type: Article

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