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Control of Growth and Morphology of a Crystal Surface by Induced Spatio-Temporal Oscillations of Surface Temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Mikhail Khenner
Mikhail Khenner*
Affiliation:
[email protected], State University of New York at Buffalo, Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, 244 Mathematics Bldg., Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
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Abstract

This paper presents the model for pattern formation in the course of thermodynamically stable and unstable crystal growth from vapor phase, which is influenced by rapid spatio-temporal variations of substrate and film temperature. In the model, such variations result from the interference heating of a substrate by weak pulsed laser beams. In the thermodynamically stable case the surface relaxational dynamics is influenced by surface diffusion mass transport from hot to cold regions of a substrate; this leads to accumulation of mass in cold regions and depletion in hot regions. In the thermodynamically unstable case the underlying faceting (spinodal) instability coupled to diffusion mass fluxes from hot to cold regions leads to formation of pyramidal surface structures. The scale of stationary coarsened structure increases as the separation distance of the adjacent interference fringes decreases (relative to the intrinsic faceting wave length, which is determined by the balance between the corner regularization energies and the surface energy anisotropy). On the other hand, the coarsening rates decrease with decreasing the separation distance, at least at particular typical deposition strength. The deposition strength and the separation distance of the interference fringes determine the transient and stationary pattern shape. By effectively redistributing adatoms on a substrate through the enhanced, spatially inhomogeneous diffusion, the interference heating mechanism delays, for large separation distances, the onset of spatiotemporal chaos as the growth rate increases.

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morphologyself-assemblysimulation
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 960: Symposium N – Self Assembly of Nanostructures Aided by Ion- or Photon-Beam Irradiation—Fundamentals and Applications , 2006 , 0960-N03-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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