Anisotropic Step Stiffness from a Kinetic Model of Epitaxial Growth

DOI10.1137/070690948zbMath1166.35380arXiv0709.2726OpenAlexW1981074414MaRDI QIDQ3616292

Dionisios Margetis, Russel E. Caflisch

Publication date: 24 March 2009

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2726

zbMATH Keywords

surface diffusionepitaxial growthstep edgeEhrlich-Schwoebel barrierline tensionisland dynamicsGibbs-Thomson formulaadatomsedge-atomskinetic steady statestep edge kineticsstep permeabilitystep stiffness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structured surfaces and interfaces, coexistent phases (74A50) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Micromechanical theories (74A60) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

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