Modeling Elasticity in Crystal Growth
Materials Science
2009-11-07 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
A new model of crystal growth is presented that describes the phenomena on atomic length and diffusive time scales. The former incorporates elastic and plastic deformation in a natural manner, and the latter enables access to times scales much larger than conventional atomic methods. The model is shown to be consistent with the predictions of Read and Shockley for grain boundary energy, and Matthews and Blakeslee for misfit dislocations in epitaxial growth.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107381,
title = {Modeling Elasticity in Crystal Growth},
author = {K. R. Elder and Mark Katakowski and Mikko Haataja and Martin Grant},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107381},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 10 figures