Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2007-12-05
Physics
Chemical Physics
15 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.205406
We studied the step dynamics during sublimation and growth in the presence of electromigration force acting on the adatoms. In the limit of fast surface diffusion and slow kinetics of atom attachment-detachment at the steps we formulate a model free of the quasi-static approximation in the calculation of the adatom concentration on the terraces. Numerical integration of the equations for the time evolution of the adatom concentrations and the equations of step motion reveals two different step bunching instabilities: 1) step density waves (small bunches which do not manifest any coarsening) induced by the kinetic memory effect and 2) step bunching with coarsening when the dynamics is dominated by the electromigration. The model developed in this paper also provides very instructive illustrations of the Popkov-Krug dynamical phase transition during sublimation and growth of a vicinal crystal surface.
Ranguelov Bogdan
Stoyanov Stoyan
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