Upper critical dimension for irreversible cluster nucleation and growth in the point-island regime

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

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Shi, Feng ^a   Shim, Yunsic ^a   Amar, Jacques G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; RATE CONSTANTS;

CLUSTER NUCLEATION; HOPPING RATE; ISLAND DENSITY; RATE EQUATION;

MONOMERS;

EID: 33748285410     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.021606     Document Type: Article

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