Competition between surface and strain energy during grain growth in free-standing and attached Ag and Cu films on Si substrates
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Applied Surface Science
- Vol. 187 (1-2), 60-67
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-4332(01)00782-6
Abstract
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