Non-linear ripple dynamics on amorphous surfaces patterned by ion-beam sputtering

Details Non-linear ripple dynamics on amorphous surfaces patterned by ion-beam sputtering Non-linear ripple dynamics on amorphous surfaces patterned by ion-beam sputtering

2005-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506469v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 086101 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.086101

Erosion by ion-beam sputtering (IBS) of amorphous targets at off-normal incidence frequently produces a (nanometric) rippled surface pattern, strongly resembling macroscopic ripples on aeolian sand dunes. Suitable generalization of continuum descriptions of the latter allows us to describe theoretically for the first time the main nonlinear features of ripple dynamics by IBS, namely, wavelength coarsening and non-uniform propagation velocity, that agree with similar results in experiments and discrete models. These properties are seen to be the anisotropic counterparts of in-plane ordering and (interrupted) pattern coarsening in IBS experiments on rotating substrates and at normal incidence.

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