From surface instabilities to nanostructures: numerical investigations

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Axel Voigt, since 11/2008
• Subject Area: Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
• Term: from 2008 to 2011
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 98895065

• Final Report Year: 2012

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• Phase-field simulation of stripe arrays on metal bcc(110) surfaces, Phys. Rev. E 77 (2008) 051605
  Y.-M. Yu, R. Backofen, A. Voigt
  
• Spiral Growth and Step Edge Barriers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (3), (2008), 035506
  A. Redinger, O.Ricken, P. Kuhn, A. Rätz, A. Voigt, J. Krug, T. Michely
  
• A new phase-field model for strongly anisotropic systems, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 465, (2009), 1337-1359
  S. Torabi, J. Lowengrub, A. Voigt, S. Wise
  
• Directed self-organization of trench templates for nanowire growth, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, (2009), 043108
  Y-M. Yu, A. Voigt
  
• Phase-field modeling of anomalous spiral step growth on Si(001) surface, Phys. Rev. B 79, (2009), 235317
  Y.-M. Yu, B.-G. Liu, A. Voigt
  
• Morphological instability of heteroepitaxial growth on vicinal substrates: A phase-field crystal study, J. Crystal Growth, 318 (2011) 18–22
  Y.-M. Yu, R. Backofen, A. Voigt
  
• Simultaneous step meandering and bunching instabilities controlled by Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier and elastic interaction. Appl. Phys. Lett., 99 (2011) 263106
  Y.-M. Yu, A. Voigt, X. Guo and Y. Liu