Second-layer induced island morphologies in thin-film growth of fullerenes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Körner, Martin ^a   Loske, Felix ^a,b   Einax, Mario ^a   Kühnle, Angelika ^b   Reichling, Michael ^a   Maass, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLICATED STRUCTURES; HEXAGONAL ISLANDS; IONIC CRYSTALS; KINETIC GROWTH; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; NONCONTACT ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURE FORMATIONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FULLERENES; MONOLAYERS; MORPHOLOGY;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 79961080777     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.016101     Document Type: Article

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