Kinetic mechanism for island shape variations caused by changes in the growth temperature
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (18) , 2967-2970
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.2967
Abstract
By using energy calculations and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations we find a kinetic mechanism that appears to control the shape of the islands formed by the aggregation of Pt atoms adsorbed on Pt(111).Keywords
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