Instability and wavelength selection during step flow growth of metal surfaces vicinal to fcc(001)

Details Instability and wavelength selection during step flow growth of metal surfaces vicinal to fcc(001) Instability and wavelength selection during step flow growth of metal surfaces vicinal to fcc(001)

2001-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104324v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 86, 5317 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5317

We study the onset and development of ledge instabilities during growth of vicinal metal surfaces using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. We observe the formation of periodic patterns at [110] close packed step edges on surfaces vicinal to fcc(001) under realistic molecular beam epitaxy conditions. The corresponding wavelength and its temperature dependence are studied by monitoring the autocorrelation function for step edge position. Simulations suggest that the ledge instability on fcc(1,1,m) vicinal surfaces is controlled by the strong kink Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier, with the wavelength determined by dimer nucleation at the step edge. Our results are in agreement with recent continuum theoretical predictions, and experiments on Cu(1,1,17) vicinal surfaces.

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