Complex surface patterning in homo- and heteroepitaxial contexts: (simultaneous) step bunching and step meandering

Vassil Ivanov, Vesselin Tonchev, Marta A. Chabowska +2

We confront a meso-scale continuum model, archetypical for the heteroepitaxial context, with an atomistic Vicinal Cellular Automaton (VicCA), built as a homoepitaxial counterpart,…