Vertical asymmetry and the ripple-rotation transition in epitaxial growth and erosion on (110) crystal surfaces

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

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Levandovsky, Artem ^a   Golubović, Leonardo ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; PHASE INTERFACES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

CRYSTAL SURFACES; INTERFACIAL MORPHOLOGIES; NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VERTICAL ASYMMETRY;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

EID: 35448956783     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041605     Document Type: Article

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