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Is Self-Organisation During Ostwald Ripening a Crucial Process in Ion Beam Synthesis ?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2011
Abstract
Results of a computer simulation of Ostwald ripening during ion beam synthesis of a SIMOX layer are presented. Based on investigations of the as-implanted state the simulation starts with equal-sized SiO2 precipitates, homogeneously distributed in a layer. The simulation shows clearly that Ostwald ripening forms structures in such a system by means of self-organisation.
This structure forming process explains in a simple and consistent manner structures of in the concentration profile like ”humps”, ”spikes” and ”banding”, which have been observed experimentally.
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