HOMOEPITAXIAL GROWTH OF IRON AND A REAL-SPACE VIEW OF REFLECTION-HIGH-ENERGY-ELECTRON DIFFRACTION

Citation
Ja. Stroscio et al., HOMOEPITAXIAL GROWTH OF IRON AND A REAL-SPACE VIEW OF REFLECTION-HIGH-ENERGY-ELECTRON DIFFRACTION, Physical review letters, 70(23), 1993, pp. 3615-3618
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
70
Issue
23
Year of publication
1993
Pages
3615 - 3618
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1993)70:23<3615:HGOIAA>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
We report real space views of the homoepitaxial growth of Fe on Fe(001 ) whiskers observed by scanning tunneling microscopy. A measure of the surface diffusion of the Fe atoms is obtained over the temperature ra nge of 20-250-degrees-C. The effect of the diffusion kinetics is obser ved in the surface morphology as a decrease in the interface width wit h temperature. Measurements of reflection-high-energy-electron diffrac tion during growth allow a comparison of real and reciprocal space tec hniques.