Competing roughening mechanisms in strained heteroepitaxy: a fast kinetic Monte Carlo study

Details Competing roughening mechanisms in strained heteroepitaxy: a fast kinetic Monte Carlo study Competing roughening mechanisms in strained heteroepitaxy: a fast kinetic Monte Carlo study

2002-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207130v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 figures, ReVTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.216102

We study the morphological evolution of strained heteroepitaxial films using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations in two dimensions. A novel Green's function approach, analogous to boundary integral methods, is used to calculate elastic energies efficiently. We observe island formation at low lattice misfit and high temperature that is consistent with the Asaro-Tiller-Grinfeld instability theory. At high misfit and low temperature, islands or pits form according to the nucleation theory of Tersoff and LeGoues.

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