Bimodal growth of Au on SrTiO3(001)

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Silly, F [1 ]
Castell, MR [1 ]
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[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Mat, Oxford OX1 3PH, England
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.086104
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O4 [物理学];
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We have investigated the vapor phase growth of Au on SrTiO3(001)-(2x1) substrates by UHV scanning tunneling microscopy. Submonolayer (ML) coverages below 300 degrees C wet the surface as disordered metastable 2D islands. Beyond 0.75 ML fcc nanocrystals with a (111) interface are nucleated and ripen by dewetting the surrounding layer. Some multiply twinned fivefold symmetric clusters are also created. Above 400 degrees C dewetting occurs for all coverages and the surface is only populated by nanocrystals and fivefold clusters. A planar ground state configuration for small Au clusters and a higher interface energy for crystals than for wetted 2D ML films explains these results.
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