Evidence for a layer-dependent ehrlich-schwöbel barrier in organic thin film growth

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Xuena ^a   Barrena, Esther ^a,b   Goswami, Dipak ^a   De Oteyza, Dimas G ^a   Weis, Claudia ^a   Dosch, Helmut ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; INTERLAYER TRANSPORT; LAYER-BY-LAYER GROWTH; MOLECULAR LAYER; MOLECULAR REORIENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; SCALE MODELS; STEP-EDGE; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE;

THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 70349416554     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.136101     Document Type: Article

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