SUBMICRON-SCALE SURFACE ROUGHENING INDUCED BY ION-BOMBARDMENT

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作者
EKLUND, EA [1 ]
BRUINSMA, R [1 ]
RUDNICK, J [1 ]
WILLIAMS, RS [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES,DEPT CHEM & BIOCHEM,LOS ANGELES,CA 90024
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1759
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) was used to quantitatively investigate nonequilibrium surfaces of graphite roughened by sputter etching with 5-keV Ar ions. The resulting surface morphology depended strongly on the ion flux and fluence, as well as the sample temperature. The height-correlation functions of the roughened surfaces were calculated directly from the STM topographs and compared to linear-response theory and scaling analyses for the propagation of growing fronts. The surfaces developed correlated structures characterized by a length that diverged with increasing ion fluence.
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页码:1759 / 1762
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