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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 83, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.193401
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- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche
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Taking advantage of vicinal (001) SrTiO3 substrates with different mean terrace widths, the heteroepitaxial growth of SrRuO3 in the step flow mode has been mapped as a function of mean step velocity. Transition between stable and unstable step flow is shown to occur at a well-defined critical step velocity, with a step-bunching instability observed below this threshold. The ability to pass from unstable to stable step flow during growth upon increasing the mean step velocity is demonstrated. This result is discussed in terms of a stress-based driving force for step bunching in competition with an effective step-up adatom current.
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