Height fluctuations and intermittency of V2O5 films by atomic force microscopy
Abstract
The spatial scaling law and intermittency of the V2O5 surface roughness has been investigated by atomic force microscopy. The intermittency of the height fluctuations has been checked by two different methods, first, by measuring the scaling exponent of the q th moment of height-difference fluctuations i.e. Cq = langle|h(x1) - h(x2)|q rangle, and second, by defining the generating function Z(q, N) and generalized multi-fractal dimension Dq. These methods predict that there is no intermittency in the height fluctuations. The observed roughness and dynamical exponents can be explained by numerical simulation on the basis of the forced Kuramoto Sivashinsky equation.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- April 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0953-8984/15/12/306
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0306035
- Bibcode:
- 2003JPCM...15.1889Z
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages (two columns), 11 eps. figures, latex