Journal
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
Volume 310, Issue 13, Pages 3135-3138Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2008.03.034
Keywords
growth models; nucleation; logarithmic-normal distribution; random nucleation and growth
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The logarithmic-normal (lognormal) distribution is one of the most frequently observed distributions in nature and describes a large number of physical, biological and even sociological phenomena. The origin of this distribution is therefore of broad interest but a general derivation from basic principles is still lacking. Using random nucleation and growth to describe crystallization processes we derive the time development of grain-size distributions. Our derivation provides, for the first time, an analytical expression of the size distribution in the form of a lognormal type distribution. We apply our results to the grain-size distribution of solid phase crystallized Si-films. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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