Ion impact crater asymmetry determines surface ripple orientation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Hossain, M Z ^a   Das, K ^a   Freund, J B ^a   Johnson, H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; IMPACT ANGLES; ION ENERGIES; ION IMPACT; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; NANOMETER-SCALE PATTERNS; RIPPLE FORMATION; SURFACE INSTABILITY; SURFACE RIPPLES;

IONS; SURFACES;

ION BOMBARDMENT;

EID: 80055004684     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3650469     Document Type: Article

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