Faceted-rough surface with disassembling of macrosteps in nucleation-limited crystal growth
Abstract To clarify whether a surface can be rough with faceted macrosteps that maintain their shape on the surface, crystal surface roughness is studied by a Monte Carlo method for a nucleation-limited crystal-growth process. As a surface model, the restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) model with point...
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Nature Portfolio
2021
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| Summary: | Abstract To clarify whether a surface can be rough with faceted macrosteps that maintain their shape on the surface, crystal surface roughness is studied by a Monte Carlo method for a nucleation-limited crystal-growth process. As a surface model, the restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) model with point-contact-type step–step attraction (p-RSOS model) is adopted. At equilibrium and at sufficiently low temperatures, the vicinal surface of the p-RSOS model consists of faceted macrosteps with (111) side surfaces and smooth terraces with (001) surfaces (the step-faceting zone). We found that a surface with faceted macrosteps has an approximately self-affine-rough structure on a ‘faceted-rough surface’; the surface width is strongly divergent at the step-disassembling point, which is a characteristic driving force for crystal growth. A ‘faceted-rough surface’ is realized in the region between the step-disassembling point and a crossover point where the single nucleation growth changes to poly-nucleation growth. |
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