Self-organization process in crystalline PbTe/CdTe multilayer structures: Experiment and Monte Carlo simulations

Unit cell distortion and surface morphology diversification in a SnTe/CdTe(001) topological crystalline insulator heterostructure: influence of defect azimuthal distribution

“…101 The diffusion-driven mechanism of self-organization of other nanostructures was observed and simulated in PbTe/CdTe multilayers. 102,103 However, in such a case the nanoripples should not be formed, and in particular they would not consist of square-shaped grains as is observed in Fig. 8b.…”

Investigation of Morphology of Aluminum Co-Doped Scandium Stabilized Zirconia (ScAlSZ) Thin Films

“…There have been several recent works dealing with the simulation of the growth of nanostructured thin films [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. The influence of deposition rate and substrate temperature on the phase structure of the Cu-Mo films was examined using the approaches based on the phase-field models by Derby et al [35] and Ankit et al [36].…”

“…The influence of deposition rate and substrate temperature on the phase structure of the Cu-Mo films was examined using the approaches based on the phase-field models by Derby et al [35] and Ankit et al [36]. By using the kinetic Monte Carlo approaches, the effects of substrate tilt angle [37], substrate temperature [38], deposition rate [13,14], and composition [39] on the phase structure of nanocomposites have been recently investigated. Bouaouina et al in [37] discovered that the surface roughness and the phase structure of TiN thin films are influenced by the change of substrate tilt angle: an increase in the substrate tilt angle caused an increase in the tilt angle of TiN columns and the surface roughness as well.…”

Modelling of Phase Structure and Surface Morphology Evolution during Compound Thin Film Deposition

“…There have been several recent efforts to simulate the growth of nanostructured thin films based on kinetic Monte Carlo [13][14][15], molecular dynamics [16], and phase-field [17][18][19][20] approaches. The influences of substrate temperature [13], deposition rate [13,15], substrate tilt angle [14], and composition ratios [15] on the structure of nanocomposites have been recently determined by using the kinetic Monte Carlo approaches. It was discovered in [14] by Bouaouina et al that an increase in the substrate tilt angle resulted in an increase in the surface roughness and the tilt angle of TiN columns.…”

“…It was discovered in [14] by Bouaouina et al that an increase in the substrate tilt angle resulted in an increase in the surface roughness and the tilt angle of TiN columns. In [15], it was shown that, at relatively low growth rates and thinner deposited multilayers, the grown thin films had the structure of a columned form, whereas higher growth rates resulted in the formation of the dotted structures. The factors responsible for the stress generation during a growth of body-centered cubic (BCC) metal thin films were investigated by using a molecular dynamics approach [16] by Zhou et al In [16], the influences of the surface morphology, the coalescence of adjacent islands, the injection energy, the grain size, and the film texture on the stresses generated in the thin films were determined and discussed.…”