Keyword

adatom diffusion

Description: Adatom diffusion is the movement of individual adsorbed atoms across a material’s surface, studied in surface physics and materials science.

Primary topic: Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (32%)

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A dimer method for finding saddle points on high dimensional potential surfaces using only first derivatives

1999 · Graeme Henkelman, Hannes Jónsson · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 3,487

Sintering of Catalytic Nanoparticles: Particle Migration or Ostwald Ripening?

2013 · Thomas W. Hansen, Andrew T. DeLaRiva, et al. · Accounts of Chemical Research · 1,480

Atomistic Processes in the Early Stages of Thin-Film Growth

1997 · Zhenyu Zhang, Max G. Lagally · Science · 981

Sculptured thin films and glancing angle deposition: Growth mechanics and applications

1997 · K. Robbie, M. J. Brett · Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films · 956

Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns

1998 · Harald Brune, Marcella Giovannini, et al. · Nature · 634

Controlling the Charge State of Individual Gold Adatoms

2004 · Jascha Repp, Gerhard Meyer, et al. · Science · 471

Adatom diffusion at GaN (0001) and (0001) surfaces

1998 · Tosja Zywietz, Jörg Neugebauer, et al. · Applied Physics Letters · 460

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Magnetic Properties and Diffusion of Adatoms on a Graphene Sheet

2003 · P. O. Lehtinen, A. S. Foster, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 453

Nanostructuring surfaces by ion sputtering

2002 · U Valbusa, C Boragno, et al. · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · 449

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Surface self-diffusion on Pt(001) by an atomic exchange mechanism

1990 · G. L. Kellogg, Peter J. Feibelman · Physical Review Letters · 405

Pulsed-laser atom-probe field-ion microscopy

1980 · G. L. Kellogg, T. T. Tsong · Journal of Applied Physics · 382

Migration-Enhanced Epitaxy of GaAs and AlGaAs

1988 · Yoshiji Horikoshi, Minoru Kawashima, et al. · Japanese Journal of Applied Physics · 367

Pathways of atomistic processes on TiN(001) and (111) surfaces during film growth: an ab initio study

2003 · D. Gall, S. Kodambaka, et al. · Journal of Applied Physics · 354

Structural Transition in Large-Lattice-Mismatch Heteroepitaxy

1996 · Y. Chen, J. Washburn · Physical Review Letters · 347

Adatom Kinetics On and Below the Surface: The Existence of a New Diffusion Channel

2003 · Jörg Neugebauer, Tosja K. Zywietz, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 335

Mechanism of Formation of Au Vacancy Islands in Alkanethiol Monolayers on Au(111)

1997 · G. E. Poirier · Langmuir · 334

Simulation of surface defects

1994 · P Stoltze · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · 327

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Van der Waals Epitaxy and Photoresponse of Hexagonal Tellurium Nanoplates on Flexible Mica Sheets

2014 · Qisheng Wang, Muhammad Safdar, et al. · ACS Nano · 326

Diffusion of single adatoms of platinum, iridium and gold on platinum surfaces

1978 · D.W. Bassett, P.R. Webber · Surface Science · 323

Diffusion-induced growth of GaAs nanowhiskers during molecular beam epitaxy: Theory and experiment

2005 · V. G. Dubrovskii, G. E. Cirlin, et al. · Physical Review B · 297

Evidence for graphene growth by C cluster attachment

2008 · Elena Loginova, Norman C Bartelt, et al. · New Journal of Physics · 293

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Binding and diffusion of a Si adatom on the Si(100) surface

1991 · G. Brocks, P. J. Kelly, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 292

Anisotropy in surface migration of Si and Ge on Si(001)

1991 · Y.-W. Mo, M.G. Lagally · Surface Science · 256

Self-assembled island formation in heteroepitaxial growth

1997 · Albert-László Barabási · Applied Physics Letters · 249

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The homoepitaxial growth of Pt on Pt(111) studied with STM

1992 · Michael Bott, Thomas Michely, et al. · Surface Science · 230

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