The Level Set Method for Modeling Epitaxial Growth
C. Ratsch, M. Petersen, and R.E. Caflisch
UCLA, Dapartment of Mathematics, US
Keywords: epitaxy, thin film growth, level sets
We have developed an island dynamics model that employs the
level-set technique to describe epitaxial growth.
In this method, the surface morphology is described by defining
the island boundaries as the set $\varphi = 0$ of the
so-called level-set function.
In this talk, we will present some new results obtained with
this new modeling technique for growth on singular and vicinal
NSTI Nanotech 2003 Conference Technical Program Abstract