Kinetic Monte Carlo study on the decay of two-dimensional nanostructures: Influence of the activation energy of diffusion on kinetic and morphological properties

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

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Castez, Marcos F ^a   Albano, Ezequiel V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISICOQUÍMICAS TEÓRICAS Y APLICADAS INIFTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; RADIATION DAMAGE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DIFFUSION PATHS; EMBEDDED ATOM MODELS; ENERGY MODELING; KINETIC ASPECTS; KINETIC MONTE CARLO; KINETIC MONTE CARLO MODELING; MORPHOLOGICAL ASPECTS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICA L RESULTS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELING; QUALITATIVE BEHAVIOR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 51849109387     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.031601     Document Type: Article

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