Formation of fractal islands on nonlattice substrates

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 3218-3223

  Luo, Meng Bo ^a   Ye, Gao Xiang ^a   Xia, A Gen ^a   Jin, Jin Sheng ^a   Yang, Bo ^a   Xu, Jian Min ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0000712217     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.3218     Document Type: Article

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19. In our simulation, all the discs are “deposited” randomly on the nonlattice square, and the overlap of the discs should be avoided. Thus if the surface coverage ρ goes up, the rate of the successful “deposition” drops quickly. Therefore, although the aggregation period decreases when ρ goes beyond 25%, the total simulation period increases dramatically with the surface coverage ρ.