An integral equation method for epitaxial step-flow growth simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 724-743

  Huang, Jingfang ^a   Lai, Ming Chih ^b   Xiang, Yang ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Diffusion equation; Epitaxial step flow; Fast algorithms; Integral equation; Jump conditions; Potential theory; Spectral deferred correction

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION;

DEFERRED CORRECTION; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; EPITAXIAL STEP-FLOW; FAST ALGORITHMS; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; JUMP CONDITIONS; POTENTIAL THEORY; SPECTRAL DEFERRED CORRECTION; STEP FLOW; STEP-FLOW GROWTH;

INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33746946098     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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