Epitaxial growth without slope selection: Energetics, coarsening, and dynamic scaling

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 429-451

  Li, Bo ^a   Liu, Jian Guo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Aa; Ct; 68; D25; Jk; 81; K35; K55; Q99

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867951803     PISSN: 09388974     EISSN: 14321467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-004-0634-9     Document Type: Article

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