Diffusion of gold nanoclusters on graphite

Details Diffusion of gold nanoclusters on graphite Diffusion of gold nanoclusters on graphite

1999-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9911275v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.61.16084

We present a detailed molecular-dynamics study of the diffusion and coalescence of large (249-atom) gold clusters on graphite surfaces. The diffusivity of monoclusters is found to be comparable to that for single adatoms. Likewise, and even more important, cluster dimers are also found to diffuse at a rate which is comparable to that for adatoms and monoclusters. As a consequence, large islands formed by cluster aggregation are also expected to be mobile. Using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, and assuming a proper scaling law for the dependence on size of the diffusivity of large clusters, we find that islands consisting of as many as 100 monoclusters should exhibit significant mobility. This result has profound implications for the morphology of cluster-assembled materials.

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