Ripening of monolayer vacancy pits on metal surfaces: Pathways, energetics, and size-scaling for Ag(111) versus Ag(100)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Shen, Mingmin ^a   Wen, J M ^a,c   Jenks, C J ^a   Thiel, P A ^a   Liu, Da Jiang ^b   Evans, J W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 34347404877     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.245409     Document Type: Article

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