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Comparison Of Island Formation Between Pulsed Laser Deposition And Molecular Beam Epitaxy: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation

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  • X. TAN

    (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Rheological Properties, Xiangtan University, Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, P. R. China;
    Faculty of Materials and Optoelectronics Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, 411105, P. R. China)

  • Y. C. ZHOU

    (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Rheological Properties, Xiangtan University, Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, P. R. China;
    Faculty of Materials and Optoelectronics Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, 411105, P. R. China)

  • X. J. ZHENG

    (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Rheological Properties, Xiangtan University, Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, P. R. China;
    Faculty of Materials and Optoelectronics Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, 411105, P. R. China)

Abstract

Based on a hexagonal lattice which includes deposition, dissociation, and diffusion, we performed a kinetic Monte Carlo model to explore thin film growth via pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) within the submonolayer regime. First and second nearest-neighbor interactions calculated by the Morse potential are taken into account in this case. These simulations show that thin film deposition by PLD is markedly different from that by MBE. With PLD, as pulse duration decreases, the island density increases and the island size decreases. Similarly, at temperatureT = 550K, the scaling function for MBE is rather similar to that of the analytical prediction for a critical island size ofi = 2, while the scaling function for PLD changes from ani = 1behavior to ani = 0behavior with the decrease in pulse duration.

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  • X. Tan & Y. C. Zhou & X. J. Zheng, 2005. "Comparison Of Island Formation Between Pulsed Laser Deposition And Molecular Beam Epitaxy: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation," Surface Review and Letters (SRL), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 12(04), pages 611-617.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:srlxxx:v:12:y:2005:i:04:n:s0218625x05007505
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218625X05007505
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