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Labyrinthine Island Growth during Pd/Ru(0001) Heteroepitaxy

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dc.creator Rougemaille, Nicolas
dc.creator El Gabaly, Farid
dc.creator Stumpf, Roland
dc.creator Schmid, Andreas K
dc.creator Thürmer, Konrad
dc.creator Bartelt, Norman C.
dc.creator de la Figuera, Juan
dc.date 2008-01-30T19:00:21Z
dc.date 2008-01-30T19:00:21Z
dc.date 2007-11-15
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:59:53Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:59:53Z
dc.identifier arXiv:0711.2491v1
dc.identifier Physical Review Letters 99, 10 (2007) 106101
dc.identifier 0031-9007
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2800
dc.identifier 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.106101
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2800
dc.description First published as pre-print arXiv:0711.2491v1 (11/15/2007), then published in Physical Review Letters 99, 10 106101 (2007)
dc.description Using low energy electron microscopy we observe that Pd deposited on Ru only attaches to small sections of the atomic step edges surrounding Pd islands. This causes a novel epitaxial growth mode in which islands advance in a snakelike motion, giving rise to labyrinthine patterns. Based on density functional theory together with scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron microscopy we propose that this growth mode is caused by a surface alloy forming around growing islands. This alloy gradually reduces step attachment rates, resulting in an instability that favors adatom attachment at fast advancing step sections.
dc.description This research was partly supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-AC04-94AL85000 and No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology through Project No. MAT2006-13149-C02-02.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher American Physical Society
dc.relation Preprint
dc.rights openAccess
dc.title Labyrinthine Island Growth during Pd/Ru(0001) Heteroepitaxy
dc.type Pre-print


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