Multistage nucleation of two-dimensional Si islands on Si (111) -7×7 during MBE growth: STM experiments and extended rate-equation model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Filimonov, Sergey ^a,b   Cherepanov, Vasily ^b   Hervieu, Yuri ^a   Voigtländer, Bert ^b  

^a TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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EID: 34547115950     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.035428     Document Type: Article

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