Instability driven fragmentation of nanoscale fractal islands

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15 April 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0204327

Abstract

Formation and evolution of fragmentation instabilities in fractal islands, obtained by deposition of silver clusters on graphite, are studied. The fragmentation dynamics and subsequent relaxation to the equilibrium shapes are controlled by the deposition conditions and cluster composition. Sharing common features with other materials' breakup phenomena, the fragmentation instability is governed by the length-to-width ratio of the fractal arms.

Keywords

FRAGMENTATION INSTABILITIES
DRIVEN FRAGMENTATION
INSTABILITY DRIVEN
ISLANDS FORMATION
NANOSCALE FRACTAL
FRACTAL ISLANDS

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Version 1, 2002-04-15, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 88 (19), 196103.

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