Twist grain boundaries in three-dimensional lamellar Turing structures
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Theoretical Calculation and Experimental Verification for Dislocation Reduction in Germanium Epitaxial Layers with Semicylindrical Voids on Silicon
Published on: July 17, 2020
De Wit A1, P Borckmans, G Dewel
1Centre for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems and International Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry, CP 231, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract:
Steady spatial self-organization of three-dimensional chemical reaction-diffusion systems is discussed with the emphasis put on the possible defects that may alter the Turing patterns. It is shown that one of the stable defects of a three-dimensional lamellar Turing structure is a twist grain boundary embedding a Scherk minimal surface.
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