Island Dynamics Model for Mound Formation: The Effect of a Step-Edge Barrier
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Joe Papac, Dionisios Margetis, Frederic Gibou, and Christian Ratsch Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Department of Mathematics, and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Department of Mathematics and Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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