Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Strained Heteroepitaxial Growth with Intermixing

Details Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Strained Heteroepitaxial Growth with Intermixing Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Strained Heteroepitaxial Growth with Intermixing

2009-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/0903.4882v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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An efficient method for the simulation of strained heteroepitaxial growth with intermixing using kinetic Monte Carlo is presented. The model used is based on a solid-on-solid bond counting formulation in which elastic effects are incorporated using a ball and spring model. While idealized, this model nevertheless captures many aspects of heteroepitaxial growth, including nucleation, surface diffusion, and long range effects due elastic interaction. The algorithm combines a fast evaluation of the elastic displacement field with an efficient implementation of a rejection-reduced kinetic Monte Carlo based on using upper bounds for the rates. The former is achieved by using a multigrid method for global updates of the displacement field and an expanding box method for local updates. The simulations show the importance of intermixing on the growth of a strained film. Further the method is used to simulate the growth of self-assembled stacked quantum dots.

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