Kinetics of step bunching during growth: A minimal model

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

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Slanina, František ^a   Krug, Joachim ^b   Kotrla, Miroslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUNCHING; FRONT PROPAGATION; KINETIC RATES; STATIONARY BUNCH CONFIGURATION;

CONDENSATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFUSION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RATE CONSTANTS; SUBLIMATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

KINETIC THEORY;

EID: 37649027984     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.041605     Document Type: Article

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