Modelling of epitaxial film growth with an Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier dependent on the step height

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 23, Issue 29, 2011, Pages

  Leal, F F ^a,b   Ferreira, S C ^a,c   Ferreira, S O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b Inst de Cincias Biomedicas   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SCALING; EHRLICH-SCHWOEBEL BARRIER; ES BARRIER; INTERLAYER DIFFUSION; ROUGHNESS EXPONENT; SELF-AFFINE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; STEP BARRIER; STEP HEIGHT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

ASPECT RATIO; EPITAXIAL FILMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; TOPOLOGY;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 79960626631     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/29/292201     Document Type: Article

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