The role of the configurational force balance in the nonequilibrium epitaxy of films

DOI10.1016/S0022-5096(02)00077-7zbMath1020.74022OpenAlexW1988516278MaRDI QIDQ1811718

Eliot Fried, Morton E. Gurtin

Publication date: 17 June 2003

Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5096(02)00077-7

zbMATH Keywords

surface diffusionchemical potentialtotal free energysurface stressconfigurational force balancechemo-mechanical processadatom interactionsatomic balancesfilm surfacenonequilibrium epitaxythermodynamically consistent constitutive relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structured surfaces and interfaces, coexistent phases (74A50) Reactive materials (74A65) Thin films (74K35)

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