Monte Carlo study of the step flow to island nucleation transition for close packed structures

Surface Science

Volumn 603, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2226-2229

  Camarda, Massimo ^a   La Magna, Antonino ^a   La Via, Francesco ^a  

^a CNR IMM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Defects; Epitaxy; Homoepitaxial growth; Kinetic Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC APPROACH; BREAK DOWN; CLOSE PACKED; CLOSE PACKED STRUCTURES; CONTINUOUS MODELS; CONTINUOUS SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; EPITAXY; HIGH DEPOSITION RATES; HOMOEPITAXIAL GROWTH; ISLAND NUCLEATION; KINETIC MONTE CARLO; LATTICE KINETICS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MIS-ORIENTATION; MONTE CARLO STUDY; OFF-ANGLE; STEP FLOW; STEPPED SURFACES;

DISSOLUTION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; NUCLEATION; OLIGOMERS; RADIATION DAMAGE; SOIL CONSERVATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 66249147583     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2009.04.030     Document Type: Article

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