MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY OF THE GROWTH OF A POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL IN THE SUBMONOLAYER REGIME-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY OF THE GROWTH OF A POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL IN THE SUBMONOLAYER REGIME

Published:2001-08-20 Issue:21 Volume:15 Page:2911-2923
ISSN:0217-9792
Container-title:International Journal of Modern Physics B
language:en
Short-container-title:Int. J. Mod. Phys. B

Author:

MEYER MARCOS¹,ALBANO EZEQUIEL¹

Affiliation:

1. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, (INIFTA), CONICET, UNLP, CIC (Bs. As.). Sucursal 4, Casilla de Correo 16, (1900) La Plata, Argentina

Abstract

A model for the polycrystalline growth of materials on an amorphous substrate, in the submonolayer regime, is introduced and studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Starting from an initial density of nucleation centers (ρ0), all crystals grow up incorporating particles at perimeter sites. Due to the formation of intercrystalline gaps, the saturation coverage decreases monotonically when ρ0 is increased. The time evolution of growing sites and the crystal size distribution are analyzed and discussed in detail. Scaling approaches for those quantities are derived and tested with the Monte Carlo data.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Link

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S0217979201007099

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