Comparative Study of a Solid Film Dewetting in an Attractive Substrate Potentials with the Exponential and the Algebraic Decay
We compare dewetting characteristics of a thin nonwetting solid film in the absence of stress, for two models of a wetting potential: the exponential and the algebraic. The exponential model is a one-parameter () model, and the algebraic model is a two-parameter (, ) model, where is the ratio of the characteristic wetting length to the height of the unperturbed film, and is the exponent of (film height) in a smooth function that interpolates the system's surface energy above and below the film-substrate...