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Olivi-Tran, N.; Boulle, A.; Gaudon, A.; Dauger, A.

Morphological instabilities of a thin film on a Penrose lattice: a Monte Carlo study. (English) Zbl 1187.76621

Phys. Lett., A 351, No. 6, 426-430 (2006).
Summary: We computed by a Monte Carlo method derived from the solid on solid model, the thermal relaxation of a polycrystalline thin film deposited on a Penrose lattice. The thin film was modeled by a 2-dimensional array of elementary domains, which have each a given height. During the Monte Carlo process, the height of each of these elementary domains is allowed to change as well as their crystallographic orientation. After equilibrium is reached at a given numerical temperature, all elementary domains have changed their orientation into the same one and small islands appear, preferentially on the domains of the Penrose lattice located in the center of heptagons. This method is a numerical approach to study the influence of the substrate and its defects on the islanding process of polycrystalline films.

MSC:

76A20 Thin fluid films
82D05 Statistical mechanics of gases

Keywords:

islanding; thin film; numerical simulation; geometrical frustration
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\textit{N. Olivi-Tran} et al., Phys. Lett., A 351, No. 6, 426--430 (2006; Zbl 1187.76621)
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