Exponent equality for capture-zone scaling in island nucleation: Theory and application to organic films

Alberto Pimpinelli, Levent Tumbek, Adolf Winkler

It is known in thin-film deposition that the density of nucleated clusters $N$ varies with the deposition rate $R$ as a power law, $N\sim R^{\alpha }$. The exponent $\alpha$ is a function of t…