title: Rate-equation approach to island capture zones and size distributions in epitaxial growth.
abstract: Understanding and predicting the effects of correlations between island size and the rate of monomer capture has been shown to be the central problem in predicting the island-size distribution in submonolayer growth. Here we summarize a method which involves a self-consistent coupling of evolution equations for the capture-zone distributions with rate equations for the island-size distribution. The method has been successfully applied to irreversible submonolayer growth in both one and two dimensions to predict the size-dependent capture numbers and island-size distributions.
authors: Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA.
authors: J G
authors: JG
authors: Amar
authors: M N
authors: MN
authors: Popescu
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authors: Family