Rate-Equation Approach to Island Capture Zones and Size Distributions in Epitaxial Growth
- 2 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (14) , 3092-3095
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.3092
Abstract
Understanding and predicting the effects of correlations between island size and the rate of monomer capture has been shown to be the central problem in predicting the island-size distribution in submonolayer growth. Here we summarize a method which involves a self-consistent coupling of evolution equations for the capture-zone distributions with rate equations for the island-size distribution. The method has been successfully applied to irreversible submonolayer growth in both one and two dimensions to predict the size-dependent capture numbers and island-size distributions.Keywords
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