Nucleation Barriers

Nucleation Barriers is a thermodynamic construct that delineates the critical energy threshold required for the formation of a stable nucleus during phase transformation, distinguishing it from other nucleation phenomena by quantifying the activation energy penalty associated with interfacial energy and volume free energy competition in the initial stage of thin film growth.

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  1. KB
    Kurt Binder

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    10 publications · 1K citations

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  2. VA
    Vitaly A. Shneidman

    New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States

    7 publications · 216 citations

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  3. DF
    Daan Frenkel

    Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands

    7 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. PV
    Peter Virnau

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    7 publications · 432 citations

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    I. V. Karpov

    Intel (United States), United States

    7 publications · 597 citations

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  1. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    72 publications · 5.1K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 26 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. Applied Physics Letters

    14 publications · 972 citations

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  4. Thin Solid Films

    12 publications · 338 citations

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  5. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 13 publications · 877 citations

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