Surface, diffusion, driven decay of patterns: Beyond the small slopes approximation

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 22, Issue 34, 2010, Pages

  Castez, Marcos F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISICOQUÍMICAS TEÓRICAS Y APLICADAS INIFTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS; PATTERNED SUBSTRATES; THERMAL TREATMENT; TIME DEPENDENCE; TRANSIENT STAGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 77957011932     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/34/345007     Document Type: Article

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