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Volume 104, Number 1, October 2013
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Article Number | 17010 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/104/17010 | |
Published online | 15 November 2013 |
Redeposition during ion-beam erosion can stabilize well-ordered nanostructures
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Münster - 48149 Münster, Germany
(a) c_didd01@uni-muenster.de
(b) slinz@uni-muenster.de
Received: 12 July 2013
Accepted: 8 October 2013
Using a continuum formulation valid for arbitrary laterally two-dimensional surface profiles, we investigate the significance of redeposition of ion-beam eroded particles on spatio-temporally evolving surface morphologies of the target. Combining the effect of redeposition with standard roughening and smoothing effects of ion-beam erosion processes to a generalized nonlocal Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, we substantiate the decisive role of redeposition for the emergence of well-ordered ion-beam eroded hexagonally arranged dot structures as, e.g., experimentally observed on various semiconductor targets.
PACS: 79.20.Rf – Atomic, molecular, and ion beam impact and interactions with surfaces / 81.15.Cd – Deposition by sputtering / 68.35.Ct – Interface structure and roughness
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