CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODEL OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL SINGLE COMPONENT AND BINARY NANOCRYSTALS GROWTH

Abstract

This paper describes a discrete model layered growth of nanocrystals and nanoalloys based on mathematical tools of cellular automata. It is shown that with the help of set of simple rules on a hexagonal grid we can simulate various physical characteristics of the self-organizing process, including atomic segregation and vacancies formation.

Keywords

• discrete simulation
• cellular automata
• crystal
• ultra-thin film
• nanoalloy
• spatial self- organization