Monte Carlo approach of the islanding of polycrystalline thin films

Details Monte Carlo approach of the islanding of polycrystalline thin films Monte Carlo approach of the islanding of polycrystalline thin films

2005-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512228v1

Phys Rev B vol.74 (2006) 075411

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

20 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.075411

We computed by a Monte Carlo method derived from the Solid on Solid model, the evolution of a polycrystalline thin film deposited on a substrate during thermal treatment. Two types of substrates have been studied: a single crystalline substrate with no defects and a single crystalline substrate with defects. We obtain islands which are either flat (i.e. with a height which does not overcome a given value) or grow in height like narrow towers. A good agreement was found regarding the morphology of numerical nanoislands at equilibrium, deduced from our model, and experimental nanoislands resulting from the fragmentation of YSZ thin films after thermal treatment.

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