Island nucleation and growth during submonolayer deposition

In this thesis, we develop a number of theoretical approaches that can be used to investigate the nucleation and growth of islands in submonolayer deposition. In particular, we consider initially a rate-equation approach in which we propose a system of differential equations as a mean-field model of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Neill, K. P.
Published: University of Strathclyde 2012
Subjects:
510
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.576340