Experimental Evidence for Surface Roughening in Two Dimensions
- 11 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (6) , 574-576
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.574
Abstract
The heat of two-dimensional evaporation of gold on a tungsten (110) surface is derived from the temperature dependence of the work-function change at constant submonolayer coverage. It shows a temperature dependence as expected for a roughening transition of the island edges at .
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