Dislocation dynamics and surface coarsening of rippled states in the epitaxial growth and erosion on (110) crystal surfaces

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

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Golubović, Leonardo ^a   Levandovsky, Artem ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

COARSENING LAW; CRYSTAL SURFACES; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 44449146635     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.051606     Document Type: Article

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