title: Kinetics of faceting driven by attractive step-step interactions on vicinal Si(113).
abstract: We have studied the far-from-equilibrium kinetics of faceting caused by short-ranged attractive step-step interactions on vicinal Si(113), using scanning tunneling microscopy. We show that a network of step bunches coarsens via both zipping up of the neighboring step bunches and irreversible binding events which alter the local topological configuration. A step-network model which incorporates the irreversible step-bunch-binding events yields quantitative understanding of the experimental results.
authors.affiliation: The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sudoh
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwasaki