Statistical model for coalescence of islands in discontinuous films
- 15 December 1975
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 27 (12) , 693-694
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88342
Abstract
A simple statistical model for coalescence of islands in discontinuous films is formulated. It predicts log‐normal size distributions, which appears to be well corroborated by experiments.Keywords
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