Anisotropic dynamics of a vicinal surface under the meandering step instability

Details Anisotropic dynamics of a vicinal surface under the meandering step instability Anisotropic dynamics of a vicinal surface under the meandering step instability

2009-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/0910.3297v1

Phys. Rev. B 80, 174115 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

10 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174115

We investigate the nonlinear evolution of the Bales-Zangwill instability, responsible for the meandering of atomic steps on a growing vicinal surface. We develop an asymptotic method to derive, in the continuous limit, an evolution equation for the two-dimensional step flow. The dynamics of the crystal surface is greatly influenced by the anisotropy inherent to its geometry, and is characterized by the coarsening of undulations along the step direction and by the elastic relaxation in the mean slope direction. We demonstrate, using similarity arguments, that the coalescence of meanders and the step flow follow simple scaling laws, and deduce the exponents of the characteristic length scales and height amplitude. The relevance of these results to experiments is discussed.

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