Publication: Nonlinear ripple dynamics on amorphous surfaces patterned by ion-beam sputtering
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ISSN: 0031-9007 (Print)
ISSN: 1079-7114 (Online)
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2006-03-03
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The American Physical Society
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Erosion by ion-beam sputtering (IBS) of amorphous targets at off-normal incidence frequently produces a (nanometric) rippled surface pattern, strongly resembling macroscopic ripples on aeolian sand dunes. A suitable generalization of continuum descriptions of the latter allows us to describe theoretically for the first time the main nonlinear features of ripple dynamics by IBS, namely, wavelength coarsening and nonuniform translation velocity, that agree with similar results in experiments and discrete models. These properties are seen to be the anisotropic counterparts of in-plane ordering and (interrupted) pattern coarsening in IBS experiments on rotating substrates and at normal incidence.
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4 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 79.20.Rf, 05.45.−a, 68.35.Ct, 81.16.Rf.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506469
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[PACS] Atomic, molecular, and ion beam impact and interactions with surfaces, [PACS] Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, [PACS] Interface structure and roughness, [PACS] Micro- and nanoscale pattern formation
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Physical Review Letters 96, 086101 (2006)