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Surface Steps on α-Alumina Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

K. J. Morrissey  and
C. B. Carter
K. J. Morrissey
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Bard Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
C. B. Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Bard Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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Abstract

Thin films of α-alumina have been produced by annealing oxide films produced by the thermal oxidation of aluminum substrates. Grains of αalumina which formed in the basal orientation show well-defined surface steps. When these steps move they interact with particles which have nucleated on the surface. Further annealing allows direct observation of the movement of these surface steps.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 41: Symposium K – Advanced Photon and Particle Techniques for the Characterization of Defects in Solids , 1984 , 137
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1985

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