CREATION AND MOTION OF VACANCY ISLANDS ON SOLID-SURFACES - A DIRECT VIEW

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作者
DELAFIGUERA, J
PRIETO, JE
OCAL, C
MIRANDA, R
机构
[1] Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco
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10.1016/0038-1098(94)90739-0
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
摘要
By means of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), we have purposely created monolayer-deep vacancy islands on a Cu (111) surface covered with submonolayer amounts of Co and observed their motion in real time at room temperature. A quantitative evaluation of their random walk allows us to obtain their diffusion coefficient.
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