A step-flow model for the heteroepitaxial growth of strained, substitutional, binary alloy films with phase segragation: I. Theory

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 158-189

  Hauber, Frank ^a   Jabbour, Michel E ^b   Voigt, Axel ^a,c  

^a CENTER OF ADVANCED EUROPEAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH CAESAR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic diffusion; Coarsening; Configurational forces; Discrete continuum; Epitaxy; Ginzburg Landau; Linear elasticity; Microforces; Multiscale; Multispecies; Order parameter; Phase segregation; Refining; Step dynamics; Substitutional alloy; Surface bulk coupling

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; ELASTICITY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; LATTICE CONSTANTS; METAL REFINING; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); THERMODYNAMICS;

ATOMIC DIFFUSION; CONFIGURATIONAL FORCES; DISCRETE-CONTINUUM; ORDER PARAMETER; PHASE SEGREGATION; STEP DYNAMICS; SUBSTITUTIONAL ALLOY; SURFACE-BULK COUPLING;

BINARY ALLOYS;

EID: 41649101086     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/06065355X     Document Type: Article

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