LONG-RANGE ORDERING EFFECTS IN METAL-NONMETAL INTERFACES REVISITED

The effect of long-range ordering across metal-non-metal interfaces is revisited. For this purpose, measurements of preferred orientations o f low interfacial energy were made for Au and Ag on NaCl and Si substr ates with and without amorphous silica and carbon interlayers. The res ults show that, when these interlayers are present, some of the prefer red orientations disappear. For those orientation relationships which are observed, even in the presence of interlayers structural informati on transfer through the interlayer must occur.