Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

The dualism between adatom- and vacancy-based single crystal growth models

  • Marcel J. Rost,
  • Leon Jacobse,
  • Marc T. M. Koper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13188-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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In homoepitaxial crystal growth, four established modes describe atom deposition on a single crystal surface. Here the authors present a model that shows that, for each adatom growth mode, there exists an analogous but inverse version for vacancy growth. This also applies to combined growth.