A Monte Carlo simulation of submonolayer homoepitaxial growth on Ag(110) and Cu(110)

被引:76
作者
Mottet, C
Ferrando, R
Hontinfinde, F
Levi, AC
机构
[1] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, INFM, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[2] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, CFSBT, CNR, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
关键词
computer simulation; copper; epitaxy; growth; silver;
D O I
10.1016/S0039-6028(98)00611-6
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
The low-coverage (theta less than or equal to 0.05) growth of Ag/Ag(110) and Cu/Cu(110) is studied by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Our model includes deposition, diffusion and fully reversible aggregation on a 2D rectangular lattice with both anisotropic diffusion barriers and anisotropic attachment. The barriers for the diffusion processes are calculated by many-body RGL potentials, and compared to the available data with good agreement. Depending on T, in both metals the model shows morphology transitions to ID in-channel strips and then to 2D compact islands. The latter transition is due to the activation of in-channel detachment followed by terrace-mediated reshaping and not to direct corner rounding. Even if the transition takes place in the same temperature range for both metals, the ID strips obtained in Cu are much longer. At the transition, a break in the slope of the island density versus 1/T is obtained, due to the onset of ripening during growth. There, the island density presents a maximum at very low coverages, followed by a decrease due to island dissolution and not to coalescence. The possibility of extracting the diffusion barriers by measuring the island density is discussed, finding that it is possible to extract a reliable value for the in-channel diffusion barrier in Ag, where the diffusion anisotropy is stronger. In Cu,an average between the in-channel and the cross-channel barriers is extracted. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:220 / 237
页数:18
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