Flattenning of Grooves: From Step Dynamics to Continuum Theory
Flattenning of Grooves: From Step Dynamics to Continuum Theory
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凹槽的扁平化:从阶跃动力学到连续介质理论
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2002
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Lei
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Crystals are often associated with their unique polyhedral shapes. Their smooth, shining facets provide a constant source of fascination to ancient. arid modern beings alike. Advances in microscopy have not, tainted the myth a bit: interesting surface structures are found down to the atomic level, be it surface reconstruction, surface ripples and dimples, or snow–flakish fractals... Most surface structures we see are nonequilibrium patterns. This is brcause the relaxational dynamics of a crystal surface is usually quite slow unless one is very close to the melting point. In addition, a qualitative change in the relaxation behavior is expected at the roughening temperature TR. The actual value of TR depends not only on the substance one is dealing with, but, also on the crystallographic. orientation of the surface. For a given material, TR is highest for low Miller index surfaces. and becomes vanishingly small for high Miller index surfaces (known as vicinals). ‘The classical theory of near-equilibrium surface relaxation was reviewed by Mullins (1963). In this theory, evolution of the surface profile h(x) is driven by variations of an excess chemical potential μ(x) ~ –∇2h. (1) The actual rate of relaxation dependsonthe mode of masstransport operative. The three basic modes are: