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Sputtering at grazing ion incidence: Influence of adatom islands
Rosandi, Yudi; Redinger, Alex; Michely, Thomas et al.
2010In Physical Review. B, 82 (12)
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Abstract :
[en] When energetic ions impinge at grazing incidence onto an atomically flat terrace, they will not sputter. However, when adatom islands (containing N atoms) are deposited on the surface, they induce sputtering. We investigate this effect for the specific case of 83 degrees-incident 5 keV Ar ions on a Pt (111) surface by means of molecular-dynamics simulation and experiment. We find that-for constant coverage Theta-the sputter yield has a maximum at island sizes of N congruent to 10-20. A detailed picture explaining the decline of the sputter yield toward larger and smaller island sizes is worked out. Our simulation results are compared with dedicated sputtering experiments, in which a coverage 0.09 of Pt adatoms are deposited onto the Pt (111) surface and form islands with a broad distribution around a most probable size of N congruent to 20.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Rosandi, Yudi
Redinger, Alex ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Michely, Thomas
M., Urbassek Herbert
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Sputtering at grazing ion incidence: Influence of adatom islands
Publication date :
2010
Journal title :
Physical Review. B
ISSN :
2469-9950
Volume :
82
Issue :
12
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Physics and Materials Science
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