Surface diffusion and island growth

Author(s)

Rüdiger Reitinger, Bastian Pfau, Lorenz-Mathias Stadler, Svetoslav Stankov, Marcin Zajac, Nika Spiridis, Bogdan Sepiol, Federico Zontone, Jozef Korecki

Abstract

Grazing-Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS) and X-Ray Photon

Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS) studies of island growth in two different systems are presented:

5 ML of iron on MgO(001) and 10 ML of iron on Au(001). Due to a missing conducting surface

Fe/MgO thinner than approximately 20 ML could not be studied previously by common methods

like STM. Fe/Au(001) is interesting as atoms of gold diffuse easily through iron layers and form

precipitates. The coarsening dynamics of these precipitates is investigated by XPCS in GISAXS

geometry. Their growth depends on the crystallographic directions of the substrate and correlates

with the morphology measured by STM microscopy. Measurements were performed at the ESRF in

Grenoble.

 

Organisation(s)

Dynamics of Condensed Systems

External organisation(s)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF, AGH University of Science and Technology, BESSY GmbH, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS)

Pages

177-182

No. of pages

6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.263.177

Publication date

2007

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103015 Condensed matter

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/surface-diffusion-and-island-growth(bedca1cb-b73c-46fa-ab5b-19f16d73d614).html