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Simulations of Co-GISAXS during kinetic roughening of growth surfaces
Mahsa Mokhtarzadeh1, Karl F Ludwig2
1Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Abstract:
The recent development of surface growth studies using X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy in a grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (Co-GISAXS) geometry enables the investigation of dynamical processes during kinetic roughening in greater detail than was previously possible. In order to investigate the Co-GISAXS behavior expected from existing growth models, calculations and (2+1)-dimension simulations of linear Kuramoto-Sivashinsky and non-linear Kardar-Parisi-Zhang surface growth equations are presented which analyze the temporal correlation functions of the height-height structure factor. Calculations of the GISAXS intensity auto-correlation functions are also performed within the Born/distorted-wave Born approximation for comparison with the scaling behavior of the height-height structure factor and its correlation functions.
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