Metastable states of surface nanostructure arrays studied using a Fokker-Planck equation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Munt, T P ^a   Jesson, D E ^b   Shchukin, V A ^c,d   Bimberg, D ^c  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 33846964470     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.085422     Document Type: Article

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