Kinetic modelling of epitaxial film growth with up- and downward step barriers

The formation of three-dimensional structures during the epitaxial growth of films is associated to the reflection of diffusing particles in descending terraces due to the presence of the so-called Ehrlich-Schwoebel (ES) barrier. We generalize this concept in a solid-on-solid growth model, in which a barrier dependent on the particle coordination (number of lateral bonds) exists whenever the particle performs an interlayer diffusion. The rules do not distinguish explicitly if the particle is executing a descending or an ascending interlayer diffusion. We show that the usual model, with a step barrier in descending steps, produces spurious, columnar, and highly unstable morphologies if the growth temperature is varied in a usual range of mound formation experiments. Our model generates well-behaved mounded morphologies for the same ES barriers that produce anomalous morphologies in the standard model. Moreover, mounds are also obtained when the step barrier has an equal value for all particles independently if they are free or bonded. Kinetic roughening is observed at long times, when the surface roughness w and the characteristic length $\xi$ scale as $w ~ t^\beta$ and $\xi ~ t^\zeta$ where $\beta \approx 0.31$ and $\zeta \approx 0.22$, independently of the growth temperature.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figure

Modelling of epitaxial film growth with a Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier dependent on the step height

The formation of mounded surfaces in epitaxial growth is attributed to the presence of barriers against interlayer diffusion in the terrace edges, known as Ehrlich-Schwoebel (ES) barriers. We investigate a model for epitaxial growth using a ES barrier explicitly dependent on the step height. Our model has an intrinsic topological step barrier even in the absence of an explicit ES barrier. We show that mounded morphologies can be obtained even for a small barrier while a self-affine growth, consistent with the Villain-Lai-Das Sarma equation, is observed in absence of an explicit step barrier. The mounded surfaces are described by a super-roughness dynamical scaling characterized by locally smooth (faceted) surfaces and a global roughness exponent $\alpha>1$. The thin film limit is featured by surfaces with self-assembled three-dimensional structures having an aspect ratio (height/width) that may increase or decrease with temperature depending on the strength of step barrier.Comment: To appear in J. Phys. Cond. Matter; 3 movies as supplementary materia

Bioatividade de extratos de sisal (Agave Sisalana Perrine ex Engelm) sobre a oviposição de Ceratitis Capitata (Wiedemann, 1824) (DípTERA: Tephritidae).

O Brasil é terceiro maior produtor de frutas do mundo, perdendo apenas para a China e índia, produz frutas tropicais, subtropicais e temperadas. Um dos maiores problemas encontrados pela fruticultura internacional, são espécies de praga s pertencentes à família dos tefritídeos

A Geometric Approach to Massive p-form Duality

Massive theories of abelian p-forms are quantized in a generalized path-representation that leads to a description of the phase space in terms of a pair of dual non-local operators analogous to the Wilson Loop and the 't Hooft disorder operators. Special atention is devoted to the study of the duality between the Topologically Massive and the Self-Dual models in 2+1 dimensions. It is shown that these models share a geometric representation in which just one non local operator suffices to describe the observables.Comment: 26 pages, LaTeX. The discussion about the equivalence between the Proca model and two seldual models, with opposite spins, was eliminated. Typos correcte

Sistema de produção de leite em pastagem de Capim -Tanzânia: ações de transferência de tecnologia.

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Jerimu 8, batata doce rica em carotenos: estabilidade no cozimento doméstico e no processamento de farinhas.

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Comportamento de cultivares de Cynodon no Piauí.

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Avaliacao da adaptabilidade de acessos de Stylosanthes.

Este trabalhao tem como objetivo a apresentacao dos dados referentes a etapa inicial de avaliacao dos materiais, colocados sob teste em 1999.bitstream/item/97614/1/PAND880001.pd

Desempenho reprodutivo de vacas Nelore mantidas em pastagem nativa com suplementação na seca.

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