Morphological evidence for surface pre-melting on Si(1 1 1)

Surface Science

Volumn 601, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5459-5465

  Ignatescu, Valerian ^a   Blakely, Jack M ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adatoms; Atomic force microscopy; Dendritic and or fractile surfaces; Stepped single crystal surfaces; Surface melting; Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography; Surface thermodynamics (including phase transitions); Vicinal single crystal surfaces

Indexed keywords

ADATOMS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION; MELTING POINT; QUENCHING; SCATTERING; THERMODYNAMICS;

BULK MELTING TEMPERATURE; PRE-MELTED (LIQUID-LIKE) LAYERS; SURFACE PRE-MELTING; SURFACE THERMODYNAMICS;

SILICON;

EID: 36249029250     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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