Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of heteroepitaxial growth with an atomistic model of elasticity

Surface Science

Volumn 606, Issue 17-18, 2012, Pages 1450-1457

  Nath, Pinku ^a   Ranganathan, Madhav ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Atomic elasticity; Heteroepitaxial systems; Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations; Submonolayer growth

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; ATOMISTIC MODELS; CONTINUUM THEORY; ELASTIC EFFECTS; ELASTIC ENERGY; ELASTIC INTERACTIONS; ELASTIC MODELS; HARMONIC SPRINGS; HETEROEPITAXIAL SYSTEMS; HETEROEPITAXIAL THIN FILMS; ISLAND SHAPE; ISLAND SIZE DISTRIBUTION; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; KMC SIMULATIONS; LATTICE POSITIONS; MISFIT STRAINS; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SHAPE TRANSITIONS; SIMPLE CUBIC; SOLID ON SOLIDS; STRAINED SURFACES; SUBMONOLAYER; SUBMONOLAYER DEPOSITION;

ATOMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY; KINETICS; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 84862640375     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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