Networking Behavior in Thin Film and Nanostructure Growth Dynamics

Murat  Yuksel; Tansel  Karabacak; Hasan Guclu

2nd Internationa ICST Conference on Nano-Networks

Research Article

Networking Behavior in Thin Film and Nanostructure Growth Dynamics

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    author={Murat  Yuksel and Tansel  Karabacak and Hasan Guclu},
    title={Networking Behavior in Thin Film and Nanostructure Growth Dynamics},
    proceedings={2nd Internationa ICST Conference on Nano-Networks},
    proceedings_a={NANO-NET},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2008}
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Murat Yuksel
Tansel Karabacak
Hasan Guclu
Year: 2010
Networking Behavior in Thin Film and Nanostructure Growth Dynamics
NANO-NET
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2008

Murat Yuksel¹^,*, Tansel Karabacak²^,*, Hasan Guclu³^,*

1: University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA.
2: University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA.
3: Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

*Contact email: yuksem@cse.unr.edu, txkarabacak@ualr.edu, guclu@lanl.gov

Abstract

Thin film coatings have been essential in development of several micro and nano-scale devices. To realize thin film coatings various deposition techniques are employed, each yielding surface morphologies with different characteristics of interest. Therefore, understanding and control of the surface growth is of great interest. In this paper, we devise a novel network-based modeling of the growth dynamics of such thin films and nanostructures. We specifically map dynamic steps taking place during the growth to components (e.g., nodes, links) of a corresponding network. We present initial results showing that this network-based modeling approach to the growth dynamics can simplify our understanding of the fundamental physical dynamics such as shadowing and re-emission effects.

Published: 2010-05-16
Modified: 2011-09-11

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.NANONET2007.2008