Submonolayer Growth with Repulsive Impurities: Island Density Scaling with Anomalous Diffusion
- 29 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 74 (22), 4495-4498
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.4495
Abstract
We examine the island density during submonolayer growth on a surface with randomly distributed repulsive impurities. Rate-equation analysis suggests a scaling relation which is tested by simulations. This relation can be used in conjunction with experiments to determine the exponent characterizing “anomalous” diffusion.Keywords
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