Noncoarsening Origin of Logarithmic-Normal Size Distributions during Crystallization of Amorphous Thin Films
- 2 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (5) , 1011-1013
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.1011
Abstract
It is demonstrated that the formation of logarithmic-normal crystallite size distributions during crystallization of amorphous thin films can be a consequence of the dynamics of random nucleation and growth without the involvement of coarsening. Our analytical result is supported by experimentally observed crystallite size distributions during the crystallization of amorphous Si thin films obtained from transmission electron microscopy.Keywords
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