Scaling of Island Growth in Pb Overlayers on Cu(001)

Details Scaling of Island Growth in Pb Overlayers on Cu(001) Scaling of Island Growth in Pb Overlayers on Cu(001)

1993-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9301038v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

23 pages, 10 Figures (available upon request). SU-PHYS-93-443-3752

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.48.8336

The growth and ordering of a Pb layer deposited on Cu(001) at 150 K has been studied using atom beam scattering. At low coverage, ordered Pb islands with a large square unit cell and nearly hexagonal internal structure are formed. This is a high order commensurate phase with 30 atoms in the unit cell. From the measurement of the island diffraction peak profiles we find a power law for the mean island - size versus coverage with an exponent $n=0.54 \pm 0.03$. A scaling behavior of growth is confirmed and a simple model describing island growth is presented. Due to the high degeneracy of the monolayer phase, different islands do not diffract coherently. Therefore, when islands merge they still diffract as separate islands and coalescence effects are thus negligible. From the result for $n$ we conclude that the island density is approximately a constant in the coverage range $0.1 < \Theta < 0.5$ where the ordered islands are observed. We thus conclude that most islands nucleate at $\Theta < 0.1$ and then grow in an approximately self similar fashion as $\Theta$ increases.

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