A continuum description of the energetics and evolution of stepped surfaces in strained nanostructures

DOI10.1016/S0022-5096(02)00015-7zbMATH Open1061.74004arXivcond-mat/0203514OpenAlexW1996737120MaRDI QIDQ700959FDOQ700959

Authors: D. Kharzeev 

Publication date: 16 October 2002

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

Abstract: As a departure from existing continuum approaches for describing the stability and evolution of surfaces of crystalline materials, this article provides a description of surface evolution based on the physics of the main feature imposed by the discrete nature of the material, namely, crystallographic surface steps. It is shown that the formation energy of surface steps depends on the sign of extensional strain of the crystal surface, and this behavior plays a crucial role in surface evolution. The nature of this dependence implies that there is no energetic barrier to nucleation of islands on the growth surface during deposition, and that island faces tend toward natural orientations which have no counterpart in unstrained materials. This behavior is expressed in terms of a small number of parameters that can be estimated through atomistic analysis of stepped surfaces. The continuum framework developed is then applied to study the time evolution of surface shape of an epitaxial film being deposited onto a substrate. The kinetic equation for mass transport is enforced in a weak form by means of a variational formulation [...].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203514

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zbMATH Keywords

nucleationvariational formulationepitaxial film

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structured surfaces and interfaces, coexistent phases (74A50) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Crystalline structure (74E15) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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