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Measurement of the Clustering Energy of Manganese Silicide Islands on Si(001) by Ostwald Ripening

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Applied Physics Letters

Volume

91

Issue

4

Abstract

The rate of growth during annealing of manganese silicide islands in the submonolayer coverage regime on the Si(001) surface has been measured by scanning tunneling microscopy. The fourth power of the growth rate is linearly dependent upon the annealing time, consistent with a diffusion limited Ostwald ripening mechanism for island growth. The growth rate has been determined for four different annealing temperatures to extract the activation energy for clustering, which has been found to be 2.6±0.2 eV. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.

Department

Department of Physics

Original Publication Date

8-3-2007

DOI of published version

10.1063/1.2766681

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