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SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 447, 期 1-3, 页码 126-132出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(99)01160-7
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fullerenes; graphite; growth; scanning tunneling microscopy
We present a scanning tunnelling microscopy study of C-60 thin films evaporated onto the basal plane of highly orientated pyrolytic graphite under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. For deposition at room temperature and with low deposition rates, it was found that C-60 islands nucleate and grow directly from steps on the surface. The height of the step has a direct influence upon the size of the island. These primary islands were observed to grow through the formation of stable bilayer islands, which extended parallel to the substrate to produce large flat islands with local heights of up to 4 ML (indicating some three-dimensional growth). By contrast, for deposition on to substrates heated to 100 degrees C, layer-by-layer growth was found to dominate. This suggests that the three-dimensional growth observed at room temperature is kinetically limited. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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