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Equilibrium shapes of coherent islands in heteroepitaxial systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2006

W. Zhou ,
C. Cai ,
S. Yin  and
C. Wang
W. Zhou*
Affiliation:
College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China Department of Mechanical Engineering, West Branch of Zhejiang University of Technology, Quzhou 324000, China
C. Cai
Affiliation:
College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China
S. Yin
Affiliation:
College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China
C. Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
*
wangminzhou@sohu.com
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Abstract

An analytical expression of the free energy consisting of the strain energy, surface energy and interfacial energy for the coherent island/substrate system, as well as the evolving relations of aspect ratio against volume of the island and misfit of the system, which provides a broad perspective on island behavior, is obtained, and used to study the equilibrium shapes of the systems. Under certain growth conditions in systems with a film/substrate lattice misfit, deposed material is known to aggregate into islandlike shapes with geometries having triangular shaped cross-sections. A two-dimensional model assuming liner elastic behavior is used to analyze an isolated triangular shaped island with elastic properties similar to those of the substrate assumed to be semi-infinite. The results show that in order to minimize the total free energy, a coherent island will adopt a particular height-to-width aspect ratio that is a function of only the island volume. The effect of a misfit dislocation on the equilibrium shape of an island is in passing examined. These can serve as a basis for interpretation of experiments.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 33 - 37
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© EDP Sciences, 2006

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