High-temperature scanning-tunneling-microscopy observation of phase transitions and reconstruction on a vicinal Si(111) surface

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (19) ◽  
pp. 13027-13030 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Hibino ◽  
T. Fukuda ◽  
M. Suzuki ◽  
Y. Homma ◽  
T. Sato ◽  
...  
2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 1508-1514 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Alekseev ◽  
D. A. Olyanich ◽  
T. V. Utas ◽  
V. G. Kotlyar ◽  
A. V. Zotov ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Vol 07 (05n06) ◽  
pp. 589-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. KODAMBAKA ◽  
V. PETROVA ◽  
A. VAILIONIS ◽  
P. DESJARDINS ◽  
D. G. CAHILL ◽  
...  

In-situ high-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy was used to follow the coarsening (Ostwald ripening) and decay kinetics of single and multiple two-dimensional TiN islands on atomically flat TiN (001) terraces and in single-atom deep vacancy pits at temperatures of 750–950°C. The rate-limiting mechanism for island decay was found to be surface diffusion rather than adatom attachment/detachment at island edges. We have modeled island-decay kinetics based upon the Gibbs–Thomson and steady state diffusion equations to obtain a step-edge energy per unit length of 0.23±0.05 eV/Å and an activation energy for adatom formation and diffusion of 3.4±0.3 eV.


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