Dynamic scaling in growth of platinum films on Si(100)

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作者
Dharmadhikari, CV [1 ]
Ali, AO
Suresh, N
Phase, DM
Chaudhari, SM
Ganesan, V
Gupta, A
Dasannacharya, BA
机构
[1] Univ Poona, Dept Phys, Ctr Adv Studies Mat Sci & Solid State Phys, Poona 411007, Maharashtra, India
[2] Inter Univ Consortium DAE Facil, Indore 452017, India
关键词
thin films; scanning tunneling microscopy; X-ray scattering;
D O I
10.1016/S0038-1098(00)00069-7
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
The roughness and general morphology of platinum films grown on Si(100) substrates have been investigated using X-ray Scattering, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy. The results are quantitatively analyzed in terms of height histograms and height-height correlations in the light of dynamical scaling approach. The values of roughness exponent alpha congruent to 0.7, growth exponent beta congruent to 0.52 and dynamical scaling exponent z congruent to 1.4 are in agreement with improvised KPZ exponents based on Kolmogorov's energy cascade concept. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:377 / 381
页数:5
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