Enomoto, Yoshihisa; Sawa, Masataka - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 331 (2004) 1, pp. 189-197
We present a model equation that describes nucleation and growth of hemispherical nanoclusters or islands deposited on a substrate for the small surface coverage case. The model is formulated in terms of a set of rate equations for the island sizes, combined with the time-dependent behavior of...