Strongly-driven coarsening of height-selected Pb islands on Si(1 1 1)

Surface Science

Volumn 601, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Li, Maozhi ^a   Evans, J W ^a   Wang, C Z ^a   Hupalo, M ^a   Tringides, M C ^a   Chan, T L ^a   Ho, K M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarsening; Metal on semiconductor thin film structures; Quantum size effects; Rate equations

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; COARSENING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SILICON;

METAL-ON-SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILM STRUCTURES; PB ISLANDS; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS; RATE EQUATIONS;

LEAD;

EID: 36249028719     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2007.08.029     Document Type: Article

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