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Surface Diffusion

Surface Diffusion is the thermally activated movement of adsorbed atoms, molecules, or atomic clusters along the interface of a solid surface, distinguished from bulk diffusion by its restricted two-dimensional character and dependence on surface lattice dynamics.

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Contact line deposits in an evaporating drop

Robert D. Deegan, Olgica Bakajin, Todd F. Dupont et al. · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 2000 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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Atomic View of Surface Self-Diffusion: Tungsten on Tungsten

Gert Ehrlich, F. G. Hudda · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1966 · 1.7K citations

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Step Motion on Crystal Surfaces

Richard L. Schwoebel, Edward J. Shipsey · Journal of Applied Physics · 1966 · 1.6K citations

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Time-Dependence of Boundary Tensions of Solutions I. The Role of Diffusion in Time-Effects

A. F. H. Ward, L. Tordai · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1946 · 1.5K citations

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Kinetic roughening phenomena, stochastic growth, directed polymers and all that. Aspects of multidisciplinary statistical mechanics

Timothy Halpin-Healy, Yi‐Cheng Zhang · Physics Reports · 1995 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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    Jörg Kärger

    Leipzig University, Germany

    52 publications · 3.3K citations

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    R. Gomer

    University of Chicago, United States

    42 publications · 3.7K citations

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    Gert Ehrlich

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    37 publications · 5.4K citations

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    Steven M. George

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    33 publications · 1.8K citations

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    Riccardo Ferrando

    University of Genoa, Italy

    26 publications · 1.8K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    62 h-index

    1K publications

    46.3K citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    53 h-index

    430 publications

    23.7K citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    47 h-index

    176 publications

    12K citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    41 h-index

    207 publications

    15.8K citations

  5. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    40 h-index

    193 publications

    13.4K citations

  6. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    39 h-index

    138 publications

    8.8K citations

  7. Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

    Berlin, Germany

    38 h-index

    195 publications

    16.3K citations

  8. Forschungszentrum Jülich

    Jülich, Germany

    38 h-index

    203 publications

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 428 publications · 40.8K citations

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  2. The Journal of Chemical Physics

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  3. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 397 publications · 22.5K citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Physics

    404 publications · 25.3K citations

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  5. Surface Science

    441 publications · 18.4K citations

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