Multispecies epitaxial growth on vicinal surfaces with chemical reactions and diffusion

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 461, Issue 2063, 2005, Pages 3483-3504

  Cermelli, Paolo ^a   Jabbour, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adparticle diffusion; Anisotropic edge kinetics and energetics; Multispecies epitaxy; Step and terrace chemical reactions; Step flow

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FREE ENERGY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LANDFORMS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REACTION RATES; SOIL CONSERVATION; SURFACE REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VACUUM DEPOSITION;

ADPARTICLE DIFFUSION; ANISOTROPIC EDGE KINETICS AND ENERGETICS; MULTISPECIES EPITAXY; STEP AND TERRACE CHEMICAL REACTIONS; STEP FLOW;

CHEMICAL BEAM EPITAXY;

EID: 66749184736     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2005.1495     Document Type: Article

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