Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-04-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
In the continuum theory the time evolution of surfaces eroded by ion bombardment is modelled by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). These determine the scaling regimes and universality classes of the evolving surfaces. Current knowledge of these scaling regimes is based on the existing continuum theory calculations of topographic phase diagrams as functions of the sputtering parameters, which is limited to small values and isotropic cases of the sputtering parameters. And which accounts mainly for ripple patterns and rough surfaces. Recent work has demonstrated the existence of non-ripple nanostructures for anisotropic collision cascade parameters not considered in the existing continuum theory analysis of possible scaling regimes of sputtered surfaces. In this work we calculate phase diagrams representative of a wider range of sputtering conditions, with anisotropic collision cascading in general. The results reveal new scaling regimes yet unaccounted for. The results also reveal a possibility of modelling a wide range of materials with the same SPDE for {\theta} \leq 30{\deg} thus indicating an important universality class.
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