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Phase Separation: From the Initial Nucleation Stage to the Final Ostwald Ripening Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Celeste Sagui ,
Dean Stinson O'Gorman  and
Martin Grant
Celeste Sagui
Affiliation:
Centre for the Physics of Materials, Physics Department, Rutherford Building, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
Dean Stinson O'Gorman
Affiliation:
Centre for the Physics of Materials, Physics Department, Rutherford Building, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
Martin Grant
Affiliation:
Centre for the Physics of Materials, Physics Department, Rutherford Building, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
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Abstract

In this work we have re-examined the classical problem of nucleation and growth. A new model considers the correlations among droplets and naturally incorporates the crossover from the early-stage, nucleation dominated regime to the scaling, late-stage, coarsening regime within a single framework.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 481: Symposium P – Science and Technology of Semiconductor Surface Preparation , 1997 , 125
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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