Hierarchical Bunching of Steps in a Conserved System

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3675-3678

  Sato, Masahide ^a,b   Uwaha, Makio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

electromigration; pattern formation; scaling; Si(111); step bunching; surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447121587     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.67.3675     Document Type: Article

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