Capture-zone scaling in Island nucleation: Universal fluctuation behavior

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Pimpinelli, Alberto ^a,b   Einstein, T L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

GROWTH MODELS; RANDOM MATRIX THEORY; WIGNER SURMISE;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 36448977292     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.226102     Document Type: Article

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