Coalescence and impingement between islands in thin film growth: Behavior of the island density kinetics

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2001, Pages

  Volpe, M ^a   Fanfoni, M ^a   Tomellini, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

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EID: 85038904689     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.075409     Document Type: Article

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18. In film growth driven by coalescence the island density, as a function of film thickness, reads (formula presented) A being a constant. This equation holds for simultaneous nucleation. Nevertheless, the conclusion reached in Ref. 3 applies also to this case provided (formula presented) is the whole number of nucleation events, (formula presented)