Birth-and-spread
growth on the Kossel and a non-Kossel surface
H.M. Cuppen, H. Meekes, , W.J.P. van Enckevort and E. Vlieg
J. Cryst. Growth 286 (2006) 188-196
Abstract
A birth-and-spread growth model is derived for an anisotropic crystal
surface and fitted to growth rate data obtained from Monte Carlo
simulations of an isotropic and anisotropic Kossel (0 0 1) surface and
a non-Kossel (0 0 1) surface. Only the step free energy is used as a
fit parameter. All growth rate sets are nicely fitted by the new
expression and the fitted values of the step free energy are in the
physically relevant regime.