Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2002-10-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0039-6028(03)00276-0
In this paper, we propose a variational formulation to study the singular evolution equations that govern the dynamics of surface modulations on crystals below the roughening temperature. The basic idea of the formulation is to expand the surface shape in terms of a complete set of basis functions and to use a variational principle equivalent to the continuum evolution equations to obtain coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations for the expansion coefficients. Unlike several earlier approaches that rely on ad hoc regularization procedures to handle the singularities in the evolution equations, the only inputs required in the present approach are the orientation dependent surface energies and the diffusion constants. The method is applied to study the morphological equilibration of patterned unidirectional and bidirectional sinusoidal modulations on semiconductor surfaces through surface diffusion.
Freund L. B.
Ramasubramaniam Ashwin
Shenoy Vijay B.
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