Publication Date:
2014-11-06
Description:
Author(s): David Appy, Huaping Lei, Yong Han, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Michael C. Tringides, Dahai Shao, Emma J. Kwolek, J. W. Evans, and P. A. Thiel We observe that Cu clusters grow on surface terraces of graphite as a result of physical vapor deposition in ultrahigh vacuum. We show that the observation is incompatible with a variety of models incorporating homogeneous nucleation and calculations of atomic-scale energetics. An alternative explan... [Phys. Rev. B 90, 195406] Published Wed Nov 05, 2014
Keywords:
Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems
Print ISSN:
1098-0121
Electronic ISSN:
1095-3795
Topics:
Physics