Steering-Enhanced Roughening during Metal Deposition at Grazing Incidence

Dijken van, Sebastiaan and Jorritsma, Louis C. and Poelsema, Bene (1999) Steering-Enhanced Roughening during Metal Deposition at Grazing Incidence. Physical Review Letters, 82 (20). pp. 4038-4041. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract:	It is shown that steering may have an important influence on the morphology of growing films. Steering originates from long-range attractive forces between incoming atoms and substrate atoms and leads to preferential arrival of atoms on top of islands. This phenomenon is most pronounced for grazing incidence deposition and results in significantly increased roughness of the growing film. Steering, which is expected to be generally valid but has so far been disregarded in growth studies, is illustrated for the growth of Cu/Cu(001).
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 1999 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials (PIN)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/61223
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4038
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