Self-assembled island formation in heteroepitaxial growth
- 12 May 1997
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 70 (19) , 2565-2567
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.118920
Abstract
We investigate island formation during heteroepitaxial growth using an atomistic model that incorporates deposition, activated diffusion, and stress relaxation. For high misfit the system naturally evolves into a state characterized by a narrow island size distribution. The simulations indicate the existence of a strain assisted kinetic mechanism responsible for the self-assembling process, involving enhanced detachment of atoms from the edge of large islands and biased adatom diffusion.Keywords
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