Models for diffusion and island growth in metal monolayers

被引:37
作者
Biham, O [1 ]
Furman, I
Karimi, M
Vidali, G
Kennett, R
Zeng, H
机构
[1] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Racah Inst Phys, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
[2] Indiana Univ Penn, Dept Phys, Indiana, PA 15705 USA
[3] Syracuse Univ, Dept Phys, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
computer simulations; growth; nucleation; surface diffusion;
D O I
10.1016/S0039-6028(97)00839-X
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
A model which describes self-diffusion, island nucleation and film growth on fee (001) metal substrates is presented. The parameters of the model are optimized to describe Cu diffusion on Cu(001) by comparing activation energy barriers to a full set of barriers obtained from semi-empirical potentials via the embedded-atom method. It is found that this model (model I), with only three parameters, provides a very good description of the full landscape of hopping-energy barriers. These energy barriers are grouped in foils main peaks. A reduced model (model II) with only two parameters is also presented. in which each peak is collapsed into a single energy value. From the results of our simulations, we find that this model still maintains the essential features of diffusion and growth oil this model surface. We Iind that hopping rates along island edges are much higher than for isolated atoms (giving rise to compact island shapes), and that vacancy mobility is higher than adatom mobility. We observe substantial dimer mobility (comparable to the single-atom mobility) as well as some mobility of trimers. The mobility of small islands affects the scaling of island density IV versus deposition rate F (N approximate to F-v) as well as the island size distribution. In the asymptotic limit of slow deposition. scaling arguments and rate equations show that gamma=i/(2i*+1), where i* is the size of the largest mobile island. Our Monte Carlo results, obtained for a range of experimentally relevant conditions, show gamma=0.32 +/- 0.01 for the EAM barrier, 0.33 +/- 0.01 for the model I barrier and 0.31+/-0.01 For the model II barrier. These results are loa rr than the anticipated value of gamma greater than or equal to 0.4 due to dimer (and trimer) mobility. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
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