Growth instabilities of vapor deposited films: atomic size versus deflection effect |
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Authors: | M Raible SJ Linz P Hänggi |
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Institution: | 1.Theoretische Physik I, Institut für Physik, Universit?t Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany,DE |
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Abstract: | Two previously suggested, physically distinct mechanisms for a growth instability of vapor deposited films, the finite atomic
size effect and the particle deflection effect due to interatomic attraction, are reconsidered, further analyzed, and compared.
We substantiate why the instability caused by interatomic attraction must be considered as the truly underlying instability
mechanism. We demonstrate that aspects of the structure zone model of Movchan and Demchishin can also be consistently explained
using the growth instability induced by particle deflection instead of the instability arising from the atomic size effect.
Most significantly we show that, for vapor deposited amorphous Zr65Al7.5Cu27.5-films, the growth instability due to the atomic size effect cannot be present.
Received 12 December 2001 Published online 6 June 2002 |
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Keywords: | PACS 68 55 -a Thin film structure and morphology – 81 15 Aa Theory and models of film growth |
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