Thermal dynamics at surfaces

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 18, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 675-698

  Brune, H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adatom gas; Surface anharmonicity; Surface diffusion; Surface melting; Surface phonons; Surface roughening; Thermal surface reconstructions

Indexed keywords

ANHARMONICITIES; BULK MELTING; BULK MELTING TEMPERATURES; CONDENSED PHASE; MASS TRANSPORT; SURFACE MELTING; SURFACE PHONON; SURFACE PHONONS; SURFACE ROUGHENING; THERMAL DYNAMICS; THERMAL MOTION; THERMAL SURFACE RECONSTRUCTIONS; THERMALLY INDUCED;

ADATOMS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; GASES; MELTING; MELTING POINT; PHONONS; REPAIR; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

EID: 70350364718     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200910367     Document Type: Review

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