Abstract
A vertical grain boundary intercepting a horizontal free surface forms a groove to reduce the combined surface energy of the system. The groove grows with time and is commonly used for measuring surface diffusion coefficients. This work studies grooving by capillarity-driven surface diffusion with strong surface energy anisotropy and finds that faceted grooves still grow with time t as t 1/4. However, an anisotropic groove can be smooth if the groove surface does not cross a facet orientation. The groove has the same shape as the corresponding isotropic groove, but the growth rate is reduced by a factor that depends on the degree of anisotropy. This reduction induces an error in the surface diffusion coefficient if the isotropic model is applied to a smooth, but anisotropic groove. We show how to correct for this error.
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