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Scaling Description of Sub-Monolayer Epitaxial Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

A. Zangwill
A. Zangwill*
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School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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Abstract

Recent experimental results aimed at the measurement of surface diffusion constants by use of scanning tunnelling microscopy and diffraction techniques have reawakened interest in the statistical properties of two-dimensional island nucleation and growth in the submonolayer regime. Classical homogeneous rate equation studies published over twenty years ago established a simple relationship among the number density of stable islands, the deposition flux, and the adatom surface diffusion constant. Recent Monte Carlo simulation studies confirm this prediction and considerably extend the scope of such a scaling description of submonolayer epitaxial growth. In this article, I review the current status of theory and experiment in this area and suggest some areas for future research.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 280: Symposium B – Evolution of Surface and Thin Film Microstructure , 1992 , 121
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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