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Atomic exchange mean field study of intermixing of Au on Ag(110)

J. A. Nieminen

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9512029

Abstract

A mean field method to study heteroepitaxial thin film growth is applied to growth, intermixing and surface reconstructions of Au on Ag(110). The results are in accordance with experimentally observed ``burrowing'' at submonolayer coverages and growth of elongated, (1 × 3) reconstructed, Au clusters at higher coverages. At coverages of few monolayers the surface between the clusters has a high concentration of Ag, and ordered rows of Au are formed just beneath the surface.

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