| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S25364/01 |
| Title: |
Temperature Accelerated Dynamics Simulations of Island Nucleation and Growth |
| Principal Investigator: |
Mulheran, Dr PA |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Reading |
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Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
15 November 2002 |
Ends: |
14 May 2003 |
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3,940
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| Electronics |
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The applicant has established expertise in the scaling theory of island nucleation and growth during vapour deposition where he has developed a world-leading approach to understanding island size distributions and spatial arrangements. The topic is of technological and experimental relevance to MBE growth o films and to the evolution of facetted crystalline nanostructures. Direct application of the theory to real systems is challenging since it requires detailed knowledge about the stability and mobility of small islands, where cooperative atomic motions that are slow on the vibrational time-scale dominate. To me systems on experimental time-scales with atomistic detail, Voter has recently developed several accelerated molecular dynamics techniques. One of these Temperature Accelerated Dynamics, has been improved and used with great success by Montalenti to model film deposition processes, albeit on small i sizes. The aim of this Overseas Travel Grant is to enable the applicant and his suitably experienced PhD student to visit Montalenti at the University of N study this technique and apply it to the behaviour of small islands. Bringing this modelling activity to Reading will establish a unique, world-leading centre expertise in the multiscale modelling of nanostructure evolution. It will also underpin the applicant's future work including ongoing collaboration with Mont and Voter on film growth dynamics.
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