ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS ON LOW-TEMPERATURE LAYER-BY-LAYER GROWTH

被引:3
作者
BREEMAN, M [1 ]
BARKEMA, GT [1 ]
BOERMA, DO [1 ]
机构
[1] CORNELL UNIV, ATOM & SOLID STATE PHYS LAB, ITHACA, NY 14853 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1016/0039-6028(94)90448-0
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We have studied deposition-induced mobility of atoms on surfaces by means of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In these simulations, Cu and In atoms were deposited with thermal energies on flat and adatom-cluster covered Cu(100) surfaces at a temperature of 100 K. It was found that in some cases the latent heat of condensation is used by the deposited atom to make a jump to a neighbouring site. Atoms deposited on small adatom clusters were in some cases observed to jump off the cluster. The results of the MD simulations were used in a discussion of low-temperature layer-by-layer growth of Cu on Cu(100), as was recently observed experimentally.
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