Coherent islands and microstructural evolution.
Coherent islands and microstructural evolution.
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.48.18203
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发表时间:
1993-12
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Drucker
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Drucker
Strained island growth in lattice-mismatched epitaxial systems differs from relaxed island growth. The total elastic energy of a strained island changes its chemical potential and growth rate. This effect is investigated for an ensemble of misfitting coplanar hemispherical caps interacting through surface diffusion alone. A general expression for the growth rate of strained islands is obtained by including elastic energies in the driving force for Ostwald ripening. For the first time, to our knowledge, a coherent-to-incoherent transition is shown to dramatically affect ripening kinetics. Coherent islands are shown to grow more slowly than incoherent islands of the same radius