Metallic Cluster Coalescence: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Boundary Formation

During the evaporative deposition of polycrystalline thin films, the development of a tensile stress at small film thicknesses is associated with island coalescence. Several continuum models exist to describe the magnitude of this tensile stress but the coalescence stress becomes significant at smal...

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Main Authors: Takahashi, A. R., Thompson, Carl V., Carter, W. Craig
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3668