{
  "id": "cond-mat/0111556",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2001-11-29T11:43:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-04-08T10:00:37.000Z",
  "title": "Epitaxial Growth of Thin Films -- a Statistical Mechanical Model",
  "authors": [
    "Anita Mehta",
    "R. A. Cowley"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, 3 figures, minor revisions. accepted for publication in J Phys Condense Matter",
  "doi": "10.1088/0953-8984/14/17/311",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
  ],
  "abstract": "A theoretical framework is developed to describe experiments on the structure of epitaxial thin films, particularly niobium on sapphire. We extend the hypothesis of dynamical scaling to apply to the structure of thin films from its conventional application to simple surfaces. We then present a phenomenological continuum theory that provides a good description of the observed scattering and the measured exponents. Finally the results of experiment and theory are compared.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2002-04-08T10:00:37.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "statistical mechanical model",
      "epitaxial growth",
      "epitaxial thin films",
      "phenomenological continuum theory",
      "simple surfaces"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}