Morphological instabilities of a thin film on a Penrose lattice: a Monte Carlo study

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2005.11.023zbMATH Open1187.76621arXivcond-mat/0503576OpenAlexW2066542336MaRDI QIDQ973526FDOQ973526

Authors: Nathalie Olivi-Tran, A. Boulle, A. Gaudon, A. Dauger 

Publication date: 2 June 2010

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We computed by a Monte Carlo method the thermal relaxation of a polycrystalline thin film deposited on a Penrose lattice. The thin film was modelled by a 2 dimensional array of elementary domains, which have each a given height. During the Monte Carlo process, the height of each of these elementary domains is allowed to change as well as their crystallographic orientation. After equilibrium is reached at a given numerical temperature, all elementary domains have changed their orientation into the same one and small islands appear, preferentially on the domains of the Penrose lattice located in the center of heptagons. This method is a new numerical approach to study the influence of the substrate and its defects on the islanding process of polycrystalline films.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503576

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical simulationthin filmgeometrical frustrationislanding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05) Thin fluid films (76A20)

Cites Work

• Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
• Some Theorems on the Free Energies of Crystal Surfaces

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