Sputter roughening of inhomogeneous surfaces: Impurity pinning and nanostructure shape selection

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Ong, S W ^a   Tok, E S ^a   Kang, H Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCALING LAWS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

IMPURITY PINNING; KARDAR-PARISI-ZHANG (KPZ) VALUES; SURFACE INHOMOGENEITY;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 34547275112     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061607     Document Type: Article

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