Island-to-percolation transition during growth of metal films
- 15 May 1994
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 75 (10) , 5016-5020
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.355742
Abstract
Metal films grown on nonwetting substrates evolve from an early stage of isolated compact islands to a later stage of elongated islands and percolation. Results are presented of a scanning electron microscopy study of Pb on SiO2 showing that the critical island radius Rc at which this crossover occurs is strongly dependent on temperature and weakly dependent on deposition rate. The experimental results are semiquantitatively described by a kinetic freezing model, in which the rate of island coalescence due to surface diffusion competes with the rate of island growth due to deposition.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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