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Two dimensional graph model for epitaxial crystal growth with adatoms

Analysis of PDEs 2024-11-28 v2

Abstract

We consider a model to describe stable configurations in epitaxial growth of crystals in the two dimensional case, and in the regime of linearized elasticity. The novelty is that the model also takes into consideration the adatom density on the surface of the film. These are behind the main mechanisms of crystal growth and formation of islands (or quantum dots). The main result of the paper is the integral representation of the relaxed energy.

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@article{arxiv.2402.08447,
  title  = {Two dimensional graph model for epitaxial crystal growth with adatoms},
  author = {Riccardo Cristoferi and Gabriele Fissore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.08447},
  year   = {2024}
}
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