Effect of length scales in directing step bunch self-organization during annealing of patterned vicinal Si(111) surfaces: Comparison with a simple near-equilibrium model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Kan, Hung Chih ^a,c,d   Kwon, Taesoon ^b,c   Phaneuf, R J ^a,b,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 43049090077     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.205401     Document Type: Article

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