Morphology of ledge patterns during step flow growth of metal surfaces vicinal to fcc(001)
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Physical Review B, Volume 65, issue 4, pp. 1-4
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The morphological development of step edge patterns in the presence of meandering instability during step flow growth is studied by simulations and numerical integration of a continuum model. It is demonstrated that the kink Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier responsible for the instability leads to an invariant shape of the step profiles. The step morphologies change with increasing coverage from a somewhat triangular shape to a more flat, invariant steady state form. The average pattern shape extracted from the simulations is shown to be in good agreement with that obtained from numerical integration of the continuum theory.Description
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Rusanen, M, Koponen, I T, Ala-Nissila, T, Ghosh, C & Rahman, T S 2002, 'Morphology of ledge patterns during step flow growth of metal surfaces vicinal to fcc(001)', Physical Review B, vol. 65, no. 4, 041404, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.041404