TY - JOUR T1 - Epitaxially strained elastic films: the case of anisotropic surface energies JF - ESAIM Control. Optim. Calc. Var. 19 (2013) 167-189 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Marco Bonacini AB -

In the context of a variational model for the epitaxial growth of strained elastic films, we study the effects of the presence of anisotropic surface energies in the determination of equilibrium configurations. We show that the threshold effect that describes the stability of flat morphologies in the isotropic case remains valid for weak anisotropies, but is no longer present in the case of highly anisotropic surface energies, where we show that the flat configuration is always a local minimizer of the total energy. The main tool used to obtain these results is a minimality criterion based on the positivity of the second variation.

PB - EDP Sciences UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4268 U1 - 3999 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER -