Multispecies epitaxial growth on vicinal surfaces with chemical reactions and diffusion

DOI10.1098/rspa.2005.1495zbMath1255.80021OpenAlexW2123369671MaRDI QIDQ5428318

Paolo Cermelli, Michel E. Jabbour

Publication date: 21 November 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2005.1495

zbMATH Keywords

step flowadparticle diffusionanisotropic edge kinetics and energeticsmultispecies epitaxystep and terrace chemical reactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Chemically reacting flows (80A32) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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