Step bunching of vicinal 6H-SiC{0001} surfaces

Details Step bunching of vicinal 6H-SiC{0001} surfaces Step bunching of vicinal 6H-SiC{0001} surfaces

2009-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/0903.2067v1

Phys. Rev. B 79, 245413 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

10 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.245413

We use kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to understand growth- and etching-induced step bunching of 6H-SiC{0001} vicinal surfaces oriented towards [1-100] and [11-20]. By taking account of the different rates of surface diffusion on three inequivalent terraces, we reproduce the experimentally observed tendency for single bilayer height steps to bunch into half unit cell height steps. By taking account of the different mobilities of steps with different structures, we reproduce the experimentally observed tendency for adjacent pairs of half unit cell height steps to bunch into full unit cell height steps. A prediction of our simulations is that growth-induced and etching-induced step bunching lead to different surface terminations for the exposed terraces when full unit cell height steps are present.

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