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Two-Dimensional Nucleation with Edge and Corner Diffusion | Yukio Saito
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8 Dec 2002 | Subject: | Materials Science; Statistical Mechanics | cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.stat-mech | Abstract: | The effect of edge and corner diffusions on the morphology and on the density of islands nucleated irreversibly on a flat substrate surface is studied. Without edge and corner diffusion, islands are fractal. As an edge diffusion constant $D_e$ increases, islands tend to take a cross shape with four needles in the $< 10 >$ direction. Additional corner diffusion with a diffusion constant $D_c$ yields square islands. When $D_e$ is small relative to the surface diffusion constant $D_s$, the square corner shows the Berg instability to produce hopper growth in the $<11>$ direction. The corner diffusion influences the island number density $n$. At a deposition flux $F$ with a small $D_c$, mainly monomers are mobile and $n propto (F/D_s)^{1/3}$. At large $D_c$, dimers and trimers are also mobile and $n propto F^{3/7} D_s^{-5/21} D_c^{-4/21}$. The $F$ dependence is in good agreement to the rate equation analysis, but the dependence on $D_c$ cannot be explained by the theory. | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0301091 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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