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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
26
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-2-6
pubmed:abstractText
Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we demonstrate that the nucleation density of Fe islands on the surface of nanoscale Pb films oscillates with the film thickness, providing a direct manifestation of the quantum size effect on surface diffusion. The Fe adatom diffusion barriers were derived to be 204+/-5 and 187+/-5 meV on a 21 and 26 monolayer (ML) Pb film, respectively, by matching the kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to the experimental island densities. The effect is further illustrated by the growth of Fe islands on wedged Pb films, where the Fe island density is consistently higher on the odd-layer films than on the even-layer films in the thickness range of 11 to 15 ML.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0031-9007
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
31
pubmed:volume
97
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
266102
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Quantum size effect on adatom surface diffusion.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article