Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
Mechanical properties of thin films grown by nanocluster deposition are highly dependent on the energy at which the clusters are deposited. Using molecular dynamics computer simulations we have quantitatively studied variations in the properties of copper thin films grown by deposition of Cu nanoclusters, at energies ranging from 5 meV to 10 eV per cluster atom, on a Cu (100) substrate.