Publications by authors named "Andrei S Sokolovskii"

We study theoretically the size distributions of nanoparticles (islands, droplets, nanowires) whose time evolution obeys the kinetic rate equations with size-dependent condensation and evaporation rates. Different effects are studied which contribute to the size distribution broadening, including kinetic fluctuations, evaporation, nucleation delay, and size-dependent growth rates. Under rather general assumptions, an analytic form of the size distribution is obtained in terms of the natural variable s which equals the number of monomers in the nanoparticle.

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