3D Growth Kinetics of Precipitates with Anisotropic Interfacial Free Energy: A Phase-Field Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (S2) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arijit Roy ◽  
M. P. Gururajan
2011 ◽  
Vol 172-174 ◽  
pp. 664-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne Berthier ◽  
Emile Maras ◽  
Isabelle Braems ◽  
Bernard Legrand

We compare three models of 2D precipitation kinetics that give access to different time-space scales. Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations (KMC), cluster dynamics (CD) and nucleation-growth-coalescence model (NGCM), based on a same atomic model, lead to an excellent agreement as long as the interfacial free energy is evaluated accurately and the interaction between diffusion fields is taken into account in the CD. The NGCM model noticeably improves the previous approaches of the same kind by using a constrained-equilibrium hypothesis to describe the solid solution. Moreover, in the coalescence regime, we show that CD leads to cluster distributions that are wider and more symmetric than the LSW distribution due to the probabilistic feature of the growth law of a cluster, that makes it differ from the purely deterministic NGCM approach.


Author(s):  
В.Г. Дубровский ◽  
А.С. Соколовский ◽  
И.В. Штром

An expression for the free energy of forming an island from a catalyst droplet in the vapor-liquid-solid growth of III-V nanowires is obtained. The effect of the droplet depletion with its group V (As) content is studied in the presence of material influx from vapor. Different growth regimes of a nanowire monolayer are theoretically analyzed, including the regime with the stopping size under very low As concentrations in liquid. It is shown that the island stops growing when the As content in the droplet decreases to its equilibrium value. The obtained results should be useful for understanding and modeling the growth kinetics of III-V nanowires, their crystal phase, nucleation statistics and length distributions within the ensembles of nanowires as well as the doping process.


2016 ◽  
Vol 119 (16) ◽  
pp. 164305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Shang ◽  
Zhipeng Guo ◽  
Zhiqiang Han

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 4666-4673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Guo ◽  
Jincheng Wang ◽  
Zhijun Wang ◽  
Junjie Li ◽  
Yaolin Guo ◽  
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