Atomistic insights into ultrafast SiGe nanoprocessing
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces(2023)
摘要
Controlling ultrafast material transformations with atomic precision is essential for future nanotechnology. Pulsed laser annealing (LA), inducing extremely rapid and localized phase transitions, is a powerful way to achieve this, but it requires careful optimization together with the appropriate system design. We present a multiscale LA computational framework able to simulate atom-by-atom the highly out-of-equilibrium kinetics of a material as it interacts with the laser, including effects of structural disorder. By seamlessly coupling a macroscale continuum solver to a nanoscale super-lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo code, this method overcomes the limits of state-of-the-art continuum-based tools. We exploit it to investigate nontrivial changes in composition, morphology and quality of laser-annealed SiGe alloys. Validations against experiments and phase-field simulations, as well as advanced applications to strained, defected, nanostructured and confined SiGe are presented, highlighting the importance of a multiscale atomistic-continuum approach. Current applicability and potential generalization routes are finally discussed.
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