ISLAND DENSITY IN HOMOEPITAXIAL GROWTH - IMPROVED MONTE-CARLO RESULTS

We reexamine the density of two dimensional islands in the submonolaye r regime of a homoepitaxially growing surface using the coarse grained Monte Carlo simulation with random sequential updating rather than pa rallel updating. It turns out that the power law dependence of the den sity of islands on the deposition rate agrees much better with the the oretical prediction than previous data obtained by other methods if ra ndom sequential instead of parallel updating is used.