Islands in the Stream: Electromigration-Driven Shape Evolution with Crystal Anisotropy

DOI10.1007/3-7643-7343-1_10zbMATH Open1081.82598arXivcond-mat/0405068OpenAlexW1642100151MaRDI QIDQ3369339FDOQ3369339

Authors: Philipp Kuhn, Joachim Krug 

Publication date: 13 February 2006

Published in: Multiscale Modeling in Epitaxial Growth (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the shape evolution of two-dimensional islands on a crystal surface in the regime where mass transport is exclusively along the island edge. A directed mass current due to surface electromigration causes the island to migrate in the direction of the force. Stationary shapes in the presence of an anisotropic edge mobility can be computed analytically when the capillary effects of the line tension of the island edge are neglected, and conditions for the existence of non-singular stationary shapes can be formulated. In particular, we analyse the dependence of the direction of island migration on the relative orientation of the electric field to the crystal anisotropy, and we show that no stationary shapes exist when the number of symmetry axes is odd. The full problem including line tension is solved by time-dependent numerical integration of the sharp-interface model. In addition to stationary shapes and shape instability leading to island breakup, we also find a regime where the shape displays periodic oscillations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405068

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zbMATH Keywords

crystal anisotropycrystal stepssurface electromigrationtwo-dimensional shape evolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

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