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Title: Initial growth mode of Au on Ag(110) studied with first-principles calculations

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters; (United States)
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  1. Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States) Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Nukleare Festkoerperphysik, Karlsruhe (Germany) Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)

We studied the initial growth mode of Au on Ag(110) using first-principles total energy calculations. We found that a recently observed bilayer growth mode in this system is not energetically favorable and thus may not be an equilibrium process. The most favorable initial growth process up to 1 monolayer Au coverage is found to proceed via subsurface substitution, which is an interesting growth mode for a metal-on-metal system.

DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-82
OSTI ID:
7166041
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 69:11; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English