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Title: Point island models for nucleation and growth of supported nanoclusters during surface deposition

Abstract

Point island models (PIMs) are presented for the formation of supported nanoclusters (or islands) during deposition on flat crystalline substrates at lower submonolayer coverages. These models treat islands as occupying a single adsorption site, although carrying a label to track their size (i.e., they suppress island structure). However, they are particularly effective in describing the island size and spatial distributions. In fact, these PIMs provide fundamental insight into the key features for homogeneous nucleation and growth processes on surfaces. PIMs are also versatile being readily adapted to treat both diffusion-limited and attachment-limited growth and also a variety of other nucleation processes with modified mechanisms. Their behavior is readily and precisely assessed by kinetic Monte Carlo simulation.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  2. Univ. de Lorraine, Cedex, (France)
  3. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Univ. Federal de Vicosa (Brazil)
  4. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1495702
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11358
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Chemical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 145; Journal Issue: 21; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Han, Yong, Gaudry, Émilie, Oliveira, Tiago J., and Evans, James W. Point island models for nucleation and growth of supported nanoclusters during surface deposition. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4954410.
Han, Yong, Gaudry, Émilie, Oliveira, Tiago J., & Evans, James W. Point island models for nucleation and growth of supported nanoclusters during surface deposition. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4954410
Han, Yong, Gaudry, Émilie, Oliveira, Tiago J., and Evans, James W. Wed . "Point island models for nucleation and growth of supported nanoclusters during surface deposition". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4954410. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1495702.
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title = {Point island models for nucleation and growth of supported nanoclusters during surface deposition},
author = {Han, Yong and Gaudry, Émilie and Oliveira, Tiago J. and Evans, James W.},
abstractNote = {Point island models (PIMs) are presented for the formation of supported nanoclusters (or islands) during deposition on flat crystalline substrates at lower submonolayer coverages. These models treat islands as occupying a single adsorption site, although carrying a label to track their size (i.e., they suppress island structure). However, they are particularly effective in describing the island size and spatial distributions. In fact, these PIMs provide fundamental insight into the key features for homogeneous nucleation and growth processes on surfaces. PIMs are also versatile being readily adapted to treat both diffusion-limited and attachment-limited growth and also a variety of other nucleation processes with modified mechanisms. Their behavior is readily and precisely assessed by kinetic Monte Carlo simulation.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4954410},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
number = 21,
volume = 145,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: A schematic of the basic point island model (PIM) for critical island size i = 1. The circles indicate depositing atoms (blue), diffusing adatoms (green), and immobile islands (red), whose sizes are indicated by their numeric labels.

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