Modeling thermal decay of high-aspect-ratio nanostructures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Castez, Marcos F ^a   Salvarezza, Roberto C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE DIFFUSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONTINUOUS MODELING; CONTINUOUS MODELS; DIFFUSION DRIVEN; DISCRETE MODELS; EMBEDDED ATOM MODELS; HIGH ASPECT RATIOS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NANOFEATURES; NON-CONVEX SHAPES; QUANTITATIVE BOUNDS; THERMAL DECAYS;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 59849104811     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3077030     Document Type: Article

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