Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-09-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
6 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
We study step flow growth of epitaxial graphene on 6H-SiC using a one dimensional kinetic Monte Carlo model. The model parameters are effective energy barriers for the nucleation and propagation of graphene at the SiC steps. When the model is applied to graphene growth on vicinal surfaces, a strip width distribution is used to characterize the surface morphology. Additional kinetic processes are included to study graphene growth on SiC nano-facets. Our main result is that the original nano-facet is fractured into several nano-facets during graphene growth. This phenomenon is characterized by the angle at which the fractured nano-facet is oriented with respect to the basal plane. The distribution of this angle across the surface is found to be related to the strip width distribution for vicinal surfaces. As the terrace propagation barrier decreases, the fracture angle distribution changes continously from two-sided Gaussian to one-sided power-law. Using this distribution, it will be possible to extract energy barriers from experiments and interpret the growth morphology quantitatively.
Ming Fan
Zangwill Andrew
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