title: Novel SiGe island coarsening kinetics: ostwald ripening and elastic interactions
abstract: Real-time light scattering measurements of coherent island coarsening during SiGe/Si heteroepitaxy reveal unusual kinetics. In particular, the mean island volume increases superlinearly with time, while the areal density of islands decreases at a faster-than-linear rate. Neither observation is consistent with standard considerations of Ostwald ripening. Modification of the standard theory to incorporate the effect of elastic interactions in the growing island array reproduces the observed behavior.
authors.affiliation: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1415, USA.
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Floro
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Sinclair
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chason
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Freund
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Twesten
authors.initials: RQ
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Lucadamo