Surfactant effect in heteroepitaxial growth. The Pb - Co/Cu(111) case

Details Surfactant effect in heteroepitaxial growth. The Pb - Co/Cu(111) case Surfactant effect in heteroepitaxial growth. The Pb - Co/Cu(111) case

2001-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104205v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, latex, 2 figures embedded in the text

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.033409

A MonteCarlo simulations study has been performed in order to study the effect of Pb as surfactant on the initial growth stage of Co/Cu(111). The main characteristics of Co growing over Cu(111) face, i.e. the decorated double layer steps, the multiple layer islands and the pools of vacancies, disappear with the pre-evaporation of a Pb monolayer. Through MC simulations, a full picture of these complex processes is obtained. Co quickly diffuses through the Pb monolayer exchanging place with Cu atoms at the substrate. The exchange process diffusion inhibits the formation of pure Co islands, reducing the surface stress and then the formation of multilayer islands and the pools of vacancies. On the other hand, the random exchange also suppress the nucleation preferential sites generated by Co atoms at Cu steps, responsible of the step decoration.

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