Kinetic-energy induced smoothening and delay of epitaxial breakdown in pulsed-laser deposition

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Shin, Byungha ^a   Aziz, Michael J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548276070     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.085431     Document Type: Article

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