Smoothing of ultrathin silver films by transition metal seeding

被引：64

作者：

Anders, Andre

Byon, Eungsun

Kim, Dong-Ho

Fukuda, Kentaro

Lim, Sunnie H. N.

机构：

[1] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[2] Korean Inst Machinery & Mat, Chang Won 641010, South Korea

[3] Nippon Sheet Glass Co Ltd, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3002635, Japan

[4] Univ Sydney, Sch Phys, Washington, DC 20010 USA

来源：

SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS | 2006年 / 140卷 / 05期

关键词：

silver; transition metals; nucleation and growth of thin films;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ssc.2006.08.027

中图分类号：

O469 [凝聚态物理学];

学科分类号：

070205 ;

摘要：

The nucleation and coalescence of silver islands on coated glass was investigated by in situ measurements of the sheet resistance. Sub-monolayer amounts of niobium and other transition metals were deposited prior to the deposition of silver. It was found that in some cases, the transition metals lead to coalescence of silver at nominally thinner films with smoother topology. The smoothing or roughening effects by the presence of the transition metal can be explained by kinetically limited transition metal islands growth and oxidation, followed by defect-dominated nucleation of silver. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：225 / 229

页数：5

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