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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
The layer-by-layer amorphization process is explored in a temperature rangein which the kinetics of crystallization can be neglected. It has been foundthat the pure amorphization rate increases exponentially as the substratetemperature is decreased with an apparent activation energy of 0.48 eV.Moreover the rate increases with both the ion flux and the energy depositedinto elastic collisions. A phenomenological model is proposed to explain theexperimental results.