Inhomogeneous growth processes
In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 65 (1990), No. 13, pp. 1591 - 1594
Title:
Inhomogeneous growth processes
Author:
Wolf, DietrichUDE
- GND
- 1273280393
- LSF ID
- 1114
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- connected with university
Year of publication:
1990
Abstract:
It is proposed that inhomogeneities in the deposition rate can be a powerful tool for investigating properties of growing films. The macroscopic shape of the resulting surface deformation is discussed analytically for the growth equation proposed by Kardar, Parisi, and Zhang [Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 889 (1986)l. Computer simulations for a single-step growth model confirm the predictions based on this equation and give explicit values for its parameters. It is argued that inhomogeneous deposition also provides a new method for measuring the roughness exponent.