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Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 788–791 (1989)

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Thin-Film Growth and the Shadow Instability

R. P. U. Karunasiri, R. Bruinsma, and Joseph Rudnick

Department of Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024

We propose a growth model for deposition of thin amorphous films by the sputtering technique. For small values of the diffusion constant, the film develops a self-similar mountain landscape. As the diffusion constant is increased a regime is reached where growth of compact flat films is possible up to a critical height. Further deposition leads to surface roughening.

©1989 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v62/p788
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.788
PACS: 68.55.Jk, 05.70.Ln, 81.15.-z

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Erratum: R. P. U. Karunasiri, R. Bruinsma, and J. Rudnick, Erratum: Thin-film growth and the shadow instability [Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 788 (1989)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2767 (1989).

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