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Formation and Structure of Thin Mo Layers and Mo-Ni Multilayers on Ni(001) by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
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The growth of Mo overtayers and Mo-Ni multilayers on single crystal Ni(001) substrates is described. The nucleation and growth processes of these thin films were analyzed by LEED, XPS, AES and SEM and High Resolution AES investigations without breaking vacuum. Growth of Mo-Ni multilayer heterostructures on Ni(001) with ≈20Å periodicity is possible at low temperature (≈200 °C). At high temperature (≈550 °C) the growth proceeds by the Volmer-Weber mechanism preventing the deposition of small period multilayers. Annealing experiments on ultra-thin (<20Å) Mo overiayers deposited at 200 °C show an onset of interdiffusion at ≈ 550°C coupled to the generation of a new surface periodicity.
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