A kinetic Monte Carlo method on super-lattices for the study of the defect formation in the growth of close packed structures

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1075-1093

  Camarda, Massimo ^a   La Magna, Antonino ^a   La Via, Francesco ^a  

^a CNR IMM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Defective epitaxial growth; Island nucleation; Kinetic Lattice Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLOSE PACKED; CLOSE PACKED STRUCTURES; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DEFECTIVE EPITAXIAL GROWTH; DEFECTS FORMATION; ISLAND NUCLEATION; KINETIC LATTICE MONTE CARLO; KINETIC MONTE CARLO METHODS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; SUPER LATTICES;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 36148929896     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.08.036     Document Type: Article

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