Epitaxial Growth of CoSi<Sub>2</Sub> on Si(001) Surface

Epitaxial growth of single crystalline lattice-matched Pr0.9Y1.1O3 on SrO-passivated Si001: growth orientation and crystallization tailoring by interface engineering

In this work, SrO buffer layers were employed as an interface engineering approach to realize single crystalline mixed ternary rare earth bixbyite oxide (RE2O3) films on Si (001) substrate. Single crystalline mixed PrxY2-xO3 (x=0-2) has been successfully grown on Si (111) (Ref. 7). However, the formation of such mixed oxide can only be realized at >750 °C, therefore when it is directly grown on...

Epitaxial growth and surface properties of half-metal NiMnSb films.

We present, herein, an extended study of the half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb, starting with the deposition technique, continuing with the basic structural and magnetic properties of the thin films, and finishing with the electronic and compositional properties of their surfaces. The experimental methods we apply combine magnetization and magnetoresistivity measurements, atomic force microscopy, ferro...

Coarsening of Surface Structures in Unstable Epitaxial Growth

We study unstable epitaxy on singular surfaces using continuum equations with a prescribed slope-dependent surface current. We derive scaling relations for the late stage of growth, where power law coarsening of the mound morphology is observed. For the lateral size of mounds we obtain ξ ∼ t1/z with z≥4. An analytic treatment within a self–consistent mean– field approximation predicts multiscal...

Epitaxial growth of Co3O3 on CoO(100)

Effects of crystalline microstructure on epitaxial growth.

The results of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of epitaxial growth on fcc~100! and bcc~100! surfaces in which the correct crystal geometry is taken into account are reported. The existence of downward funneling to fourfold hollow sites leads to a downward current for large angles and to angle selection as observed in a variety of experiments. We have used our model to simulate Fe/Fe~100! deposi...