Kinetics of shape equilibration for two-dimensional islands

Details Kinetics of shape equilibration for two-dimensional islands Kinetics of shape equilibration for two-dimensional islands

1999-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9902081v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages, revtex

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100510050961

We study the relaxation to equilibrium of two dimensional islands containing up to 20000 atoms by Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. We find that the commonly assumed relaxation mechanism - curvature-driven relaxation via atom diffusion - cannot explain the results obtained at low temperatures, where the island edges consist in large facets. Specifically, our simulations show that the exponent characterizing the dependence of the equilibration time on the island size is different at high and low temperatures, in contradiction with the above cited assumptions. Instead, we propose that - at low temperatures - the relaxation is limited by the nucleation of new atomic rows on the large facets : this allows us to explain both the activation energy and the island size dependence of the equilibration time.

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