Construction of stochastic PDEs for feedback control of surface roughness in thin film deposition

In this work, we develop a systematic method for the construction of linear stochastic partial differential equation (PDE) models for feedback control of surface roughness in thin film deposition. The method is applied to a representative deposition process and is successfully validated through simulations.

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