Rapid diffusion of magic-size islands by combined glide and vacancy mechanism

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Uche, O U ^a   Perez, D ^b   Voter, A F ^b   Hamilton, J C ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG ADATOMS; DIFFUSION MECHANISMS; EMBEDDED-ATOM METHOD; HOPPING RATE; MAGIC SIZE; NUDGED ELASTIC BAND; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RAPID DIFFUSION; VACANCY DIFFUSION; VACANCY MECHANISMS;

IONIC CONDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SILVER; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VACANCIES;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 68749098502     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.046101     Document Type: Article

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