Abstract
In nonequilibrium surface growth processes, such as molecular beam epitaxy and chemical vapor deposition, kinetic roughening plays a significant role in determining surface morphology. The stochastic dynamics in the processes induce novel scaling in surface roughness with respect to growth time and system sizes. We present here a series of numerical simulation studies of simple theoretical models, such as ballistic deposition model and biased solid-on-solid model, to demonstrate the dynamical scaling and phase transitions in a class of surface growth problems in the context of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang theory. Different dynamical processes, such as desorption and surface diffusion, are shown to have dramatic effects on the scaling and thus the surface structures.
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The work reported here has been supported by NSF grants No. DMR88-15908 and No. DMR91-17249 and by DOE under grant DE-FG-0285ER54 189.
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Yan, H., Kessler, D.A. & Sander, L.M. Kinetic Roughening in Surface Growth. MRS Online Proceedings Library 278, 237–247 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-278-237
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