First-passage time approach to kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of metal (100) growth

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Nandipati, Giridhar ^a   Shim, Yunsic ^a   Amar, Jacques G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

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EID: 77956336121     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.235415     Document Type: Article

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