Pulsed sputtering during homoepitaxial surface growth: layer-by-layer forever
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Pulsed sputtering during homoepitaxial surface growth: layer-by-layer forever
The homoepitaxial growth of initially flat surfaces has so far always led to surfaces which become rougher and rougher as the number of layers increases: even in systems exhibiting ‘‘layer-by-layer’’ growth the registry of the layers is gradually lost. We propose that pulsed glancing-angle sputtering, once per monolayer, can in principle lead to layer-by-layer growth that continues indefinitely...
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عنوان ژورنال: Surface Science
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0039-6028
DOI: 10.1016/s0039-6028(98)00477-4