Irreversible Island Formation During Deposition: Island Size and Separation Distributions
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
Abstract
We present precise simulation results for a simplified model of irreversible nucleation and growth of islands during deposition. We characterize the scaling of the island and adatom densities, the complete island size distribution, and the adatom-island and island-island separation distributions, with the ratio of diffusion to deposition rates (for fixed coverages,θ<1). We also make some comparisons with rate equation predictions.Keywords
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