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SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 682, 期 -, 页码 43-50出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2018.12.007
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资金
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Project [MAT2015-64110-C02-1-P]
- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0003525]
We have used low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM) to study how misfit dislocations evolve in the first atomic layer of Cu deposited on Ru(0001). At equilibrium the Cu islands are pseudomorphic and dislocation-free. However, the islands develop dislocation networks as they grow during deposition. These dislocations are metastable: after deposition ceases, the dislocated area shrinks as adatoms ejected from the network travel to the Cu-island edges. We analyze the dislocation decay rate and find no evidence of a significant energetic barrier for Cu adatoms to exchange with the dislocated phases. Instead, the metastable film's decay is consistent with adatom diffusion being the rate-limiting factor. A small barrier for changing misfit-dislocation density has a consequence - as a film's chemical environment changes during catalysis, its dislocation density can rapidly respond.
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