Step-edge sputtering through grazing incidence ions investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy and molecular dynamics simulations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Redinger, Alex ^a,b   Rosandi, Yudi ^c   Urbassek, Herbert M ^c   Michely, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

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EID: 44349191616     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.195436     Document Type: Article

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