Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2012-04-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
11 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
To understand surface structural modifications for Au/Si (100) system, a thin gold film of ~2.0 nm was deposited under ultra high vacuum (UHV) condition on reconstructed Si surfaces using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Post annealing was done at 500{\deg}C in three different vacuum conditions: (1) low vacuum (LV) furnace (10-2 mbar), (2) UHV (10-10 mbar) (MBE chamber), (3) high vacuum (HV) chamber. The variation in the overall shape of the gold nanostructures and finer changes at the edges, like rounding of corners has been reported in this work. Although well aligned nano rectangles were formed in both HV and LV cases, corner rounding is more prominent in LV case. Furthermore in UHV case, random structures were formed having sharp corners. In all the above three cases, samples were exposed to air (for half an hour) before annealing. To study the effect of surface oxide, in-situ annealing inside UHV-MBE chamber was done without exposing to air. Well aligned rectangles with sharp corners (no corner rounding) were formed. The details about the role of surface oxides in the corner rounding process are discussed.
Dash J. K.
Juluri R. R.
Rath Ashutosh
Satyam P. V.
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