Imperfect wetting of vapor-deposited thin films: Monte Carlo simulations and nucleation model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Dalla Torre, Jacques ^a   Gilmer, George H ^b   Rouhani, Mehdi Djafari ^c,d  

^a SERVICE DE RECHERCHES DE MÉTALLURGIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d LAAS CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FILM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEATION MODEL; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VAPOR; VAPOR DEPOSITED THIN FILM; VAPOR DEPOSITION; VAPORIZATION; WETTABILITY;

EID: 42749108073     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.195414     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. H. Huang, G. H. Gilmer, and T. Díaz de la Rubia, J. Appl. Phys. 84, 3636 (1998).
2. F. H. Baumann, D. L. Chopp, T. Díaz de la Rubia, G. H. Gilmer, J. E. Greene, H. Huang, S. Kodambaka, P. O'Sullivan, and I. Petrov, Mater. Res. Bull. 3, 182 (2001).
3. G. H. Gilmer, H. Huang, T. Díaz de la Rubia, J. Dalla Torre, and F. H. Baumann, Thin Solid Films 365, 189 (2000).
4. A. Pimpinelli and J. Villain, Physics of Crystal Growth (collection Aléa Saclay, Cambridge University Press, 1999), for reviews of recent developments.
5. F. Ercolessi and J. B. Adams, Europhys. Lett. 26, 583 (1994).
6. P. A. Mulheran and J. A. Blackman, Philos. Mag. Lett. 72, 55 (1995).
7. P. A. Mulheran and J. A. Blackman, Phys. Rev. B 53, 10 261 (1996).
8. P. A. Mulheran and D. A. Robbie, Europhys. Lett. 49, 617 (2000).
9. J. Tersoff, A. W. D. van der Gon, and R. M. Tromp, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 266 (1994).
10. W. K. Burton, N. Cabrera, and F. Frank, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London 243, 299 (1951).
11. 2 Thin Film Composites, MRS Symposia Proc. No. 616, edited by H. N. G. Wadley, G. H. Gilmer, and W. Barker (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 2000), p. 81.
12. J. Dalla Torre, G. H. Gilmer, D. L. Windt, F. H. Baumann, R. Kalyanaraman, H. Huang, T. Díaz de la Rubia, and M. Djafari Rouhani, in Growth and Structure of Metallic Barrier Layer and Interconnect Films II: Atomistic Simulations of Film Deposition Onto Inclined Sufaces, MRS Symposia Proc. No. 562, edited by K. P. Rodbell, D. Laughlin, O. Thomas, and B. Zhang (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 1999), p. 129.
13. H. Huang, T. Díaz de la Rubia, and G. H. Gilmer (unpublished).