Analytic Formulas for the Orientation Dependence of Step Stiffness and Line Tension: Key Ingredients for Numerical Modeling

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2006

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Stasevich and Einstein, Analytic Formulas for the Orientation Dependence of Step Stiffness and Line Tension: Key Ingredients for Numerical Modeling. Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 6, 2006.

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We present explicit analytic, twice-differentiable expressions for the temperature-dependent anisotropic step line tension and step stiffness for the two principal surfaces of face-centered-cubic crystals, the square (001) and the hexagonal (111). These expressions improve on simple expressions that are valid only for low temperatures and away from singular orientations. They are well suited for implementation into numerical methods such as finite-element simulation of step evolution.

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