Influence of step-edge barriers on the morphological relaxation of nanoscale ripples on crystal surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Shenoy, V B ^a   Ramasubramaniam, A ^a   Ramanarayan, H ^a   Tarabe, D T ^a   Chan, W L ^a   Chason, E ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; KINETIC THEORY; MASS TRANSPORTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CRYSTAL SURFACE; KINETIC REGIMES; MORPHOLOGICAL RELAXATION; WAVELENGTH;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 3442884190     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.256101     Document Type: Article

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