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Nanoline Templating of metals and the underlying surface processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

James Hugh Gervase Owen
Affiliation:
[email protected], National Institute for Materials Science, International Centre for Young Scientists, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0051, Japan, +81-29-851-3354 x8903, +81-29-860-4706
Kazushi Miki
Affiliation:
[email protected], National Institute for Materials Science, Nanomaterials Laboratory, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0051, Japan
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Abstract

Bi nanolines, which self-assemble on Si(001), have been used as templates for the deposition of a variety of metals: noble metals, transition metals, and Gr. III metals. The different metals show a variety of behaviours on this surface, from a strong interaction in the case of In and Al, to a very weak interaction in the case of Ag. The different phenomena are discussed in terms of a balance of different competing surface mechanisms, such as diffusion and nucleation, which drives the observed behaviours.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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