Diffusion Limited Aggregation in Low Temperature Growth of Sodium Chloride

作者:Gerss Bjoern; Osterloh Niklas; Heidorn Sarah Charlotta; Morgenstern Karina*
来源:Crystal Growth & Design, 2015, 15(6): 3046-3051.
DOI:10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00486

摘要

Sodium chloride is adsorbed at low temperature on Cu(111) and investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy. The ramified shape of the low-temperature grown islands and early second layer nucleation suggest diffusion-limited aggregation of crystallites as corroborated by atomically resolved images of the highly disordered salt clusters. A comparison to single crystalline islands grown at room temperature on Ag(111) reveals differences in bond length and angle and thus crystal order for the low-temperature phase.

  • 出版日期2015-6