New epitaxial thin-film models and numerical approximation

DOI10.1002/MMA.4269zbMATH Open1397.76011arXiv1508.04709OpenAlexW2963204726MaRDI QIDQ5280142FDOQ5280142

Authors: Wenbin Chen, Zhenhua Chen, Jin Cheng, Yanqiu Wang 

Publication date: 20 July 2017

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper concerns new continuum phenomenological model for epitaxial thin film growth with three different forms of the Ehrlich-Schwoebel current. Two of these forms were first proposed by Politi and Villain [1996] and then studied by Evans, Thiel and Bartelt [2006]. The other one is completely new. Following the techniques used in Li and Liu [2003], we present rigorous analysis of the well-posedness, regularity and time stability for the new model. We also studied both the global and the local behavior of the surface roughness in the growth process. The new model differs from other known models in that it features a linear convex part and a nonlinear concave part, and thus by using a convex-concave time splitting scheme, one can naturally build unconditionally stable semi-implicit numerical discretizations with linear implicit parts, which is much easier to implement than conventional models requiring nonlinear implicit parts. Despite this fundamental difference in the model, numerical experiments show that the nonlinear morphological instability of the new model agrees well with results of other models published in Li and Liu [2003], which indicates that the new model correctly captures the essential morphological states in the thin film growth process.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04709

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zbMATH Keywords

semi-implicit time discretizationEhrlich-Schwoebel effectconvex-concave splitting methodepitaxial thin-film growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Thin films (74K35) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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