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Amorphous thin film growth: theory compared with experiment

M. Raible, S. G. Mayr, S. J. Linz, M. Moske, P. Hänggi, K. Samwer

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9912249

Abstract

Experimental results on amorphous ZrAlCu thin film growth and the dynamics of the surface morphology as predicted from a minimal nonlinear stochastic deposition equation are analysed and compared. Key points of this study are (i) an estimation procedure for coefficients entering into the growth equation and (ii) a detailed analysis and interpretation of the time evolution of the correlation length and the surface roughness. The results corroborate the usefulness of the deposition equation as a tool for studying amorphous growth processes.

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