Changing shapes in the nanoworld

Nicolas Combe, Pablo Jensen, Alberto Pimpinelli

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Abstract

In order to determine what happens when the temperature is below the roughening transition, Monte Carlo simulations of fcc clusters were carried out. It was shown that although surface diffusion is a very important matter transport model, the equilibration time is limited by facet nucleation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)110-113
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume85
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 3 2000

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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