Multiscale diffusion Monte Carlo simulation of epitaxial growth

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 519-529

  Chou, Chuan Chih ^a   Falk, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Deposition; Diffusion; Epitaxy; Kinetic Monte Carlo; Multiscale methods; Step flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACCELERATED KINETICS; DIFFUSION MONTE CARLO; KINETIC MONTE CARLO; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; MULTISCALE DIFFUSION; MULTISCALE METHOD; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; STEP FLOW;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 33748439984     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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