Generic role of the anisotropic surface free energy on the morphological evolution in a strained-heteroepitaxial solid droplet on a rigid substrate
Yazarlar (3)
Tarik Omer Ogurtani
Middle East Technical University (Metu), Türkiye
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Aytaç ÇELİK Tobb Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Ersin Emre Ören Tobb Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Journal of Applied Physics (Q2)
Dergi ISSN 0021-8979 Dergi Bilgileri (2010)
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 11-2010
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 108 / 10 / 103516–0 DOI 10.1063/1.3512970
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3512970
UAK Araştırma Alanları
Fiziksel Metalurji
Özet
A systematic study based on self-consistent dynamical simulations is presented for the spontaneous evolution of an isolated thin solid droplet on a rigid substrate, which is driven by the surface drift diffusion induced by the anisotropic capillary forces (surface stiffness) and mismatch stresses. In this work, we studied the effect of surface free energy anisotropies [weak and strong (anomalous)] on the development kinetics of the “Stranski–Krastanow” island type morphologies. The anisotropic surface free energy and the surface stiffness were treated with well accepted trigonometric functions. Although, various tilt angles and anisotropy constants were considered during simulations, the main emphasis was given on the effect of rotational symmetries associated with the surface Helmholtz free energy topography in two-dimensional space. Our computer simulations revealed the formation of an extremely thin wetting layer …
Anahtar Kelimeler
surface free energy | heteroepitaxial