Growth of fractal crystals in amorphousfilms
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 35 (9) , 4012-4015
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.35.4012
Abstract
We present the first study of fractal growth in a solid-solid phase transition. A highly ramified, randomly branched crystalline phase was obtained by heating thin amorphous films. Our result for the fractal dimension of the above structure, D∼1.7, is in agreement with that of two-dimensional diffusion-limited aggregates. Possible mechanisms resulting in fractal growth are discussed.
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