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Interrupted Vapour Deposition of Epitaxial Gold Films Grown Inside an Electron Microscope
Author(s) -
Stowell M. J.,
Law T. J.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.19660160213
Subject(s) - coalescence (physics) , epitaxy , electron microscope , deposition (geology) , materials science , chemical vapor deposition , nanotechnology , chemical physics , crystallography , chemistry , optics , geology , layer (electronics) , physics , paleontology , sediment , astrobiology
During the growth of epitaxial gold films inside an electron microscope, the gold vapour stream was interrupted in order to study changes in the deposit structure which occur in the absence of incident vapour. It is shown that rapid shape changes of the deposit islands characteristic of ‘liquid‐like’ coalescence continue when deposition is stopped and that further coalescences do occur. The results of these experiments give added confirmation to the thesis of Pashley et al. [1] that the ‘liquid‐like’ shape changes of coalescing deposit islands are brought about by surface self‐diffusion motivated by capillarity forces.