Heterogeneous nucleation in the low-barrier regime

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Scheifele, Benjamin ^a   Saika Voivod, Ivan ^b   Bowles, Richard K ^c   Poole, Peter H ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CLUSTER; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; METASTABLE PHASE; NUCLEATION THEOREM; TRANSITION STATE THEORIES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ISING MODEL; YIELD PREDICTION;

ISING MODEL; METASTABLE PHASES;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84877772024     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042407     Document Type: Article

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