Surfactant-Mediated Growth of Nonequilibrium Interfaces

Preprint

22 June 1993

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9306047

Abstract

A number of recent experiments have showed that surfactants can modify the growth mode of an epitaxial film, suppressing islanding and promoting layer-by-layer growth. Here I introduce a set of coupled equations to describe the nonequilibrium roughening of an interface covered with a thin surfactant layer. The surfactant may drive the system into a novel phase, in which the surface roughness is negative, corresponding to a flat surface.

Keywords

NONEQUILIBRIUM INTERFACES
SURFACTANT MEDIATED
RECENT EXPERIMENTS
SURFACE ROUGHNESS
THIN SURFACTANT
MEDIATED GROWTH
LAYER

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Version 1, 1993-06-22, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 70 (26), 4102.

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