Surface Diffusion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. An Introduction to Surface Diffusion Measurements

   1. An Introduction to Surface Diffusion Measurements

      • M. C. Tringides

      Pages 1-9

3. Single-Atom Diffusion

   1. A Local View of Bonding and Diffusion at Metal Surfaces

      • Peter J. Feibelman

      Pages 11-22

   2. Surface Diffusion of Metal Atoms and Clusters Directly Observed

      • Gert Ehrlich

      Pages 23-43

   3. Effects of Lattice Steps on Diffusion and Epitaxial Growth

      • Tien T. Tsong

      Pages 45-60

   4. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Single Pb Atom Diffusion on Si(111)7×7 and Si(111)5×5 Surfaces

      • J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez, J.-Y. Veuillen, A. M. Baró, R. C. Cinti

      Pages 61-66

   5. Atomic Mobility of Ag and Fe on the Ag(100) Surface

      • M. H. Langelaar, D. O. Boerma

      Pages 67-74

   6. Comparison of Diffusion Processes of Cu and Au Adatoms on the Cu(111) Surface by Molecular Dynamics

      • N. I. Papanicolaou, G. A. Evangelakis

      Pages 75-81

4. Surface Diffusion and Epitaxy

   1. Nucleation and Submonolayer Growth

      1. Density-Functional Theory of Surface Diffusion and Epitaxial Growth of Metals

         • C. Ratsch, P. Ruggerone, M. Scheffler

         Pages 83-101

      2. Diffusion and Dissociation of Two-Dimensional Islands on FCC Metal (100) Surfaces

         • Zhenyu Zhang, Zhu-Pei Shi, Kenneth Haug

         Pages 103-113

      3. Surface Energetics from Analysis of Nucleation Data in Metal Homoepitaxy

         • Ivan Markov

         Pages 115-124

      4. Instabilities and Kinetic Anisotropies as Determining Factors of Island Growth-Shapes

         • Thomas Michely, Michael Hohage, George Comsa

         Pages 125-134

      5. Surface Diffusion in Metal Epitaxy — Strain Effects

         • H. Brune, K. Bromann, K. Kern

         Pages 135-149

      6. Submonolayer Nucleation and Growth of Copper on Ni(100)

         • Bert Müller, Lorenz Nedelmann, Bjørn Fischer, Harald Brune, Klaus Kern

         Pages 151-159

   2. Multilayer Growth

      1. LEED Investigation of Surface Processes

         • M. Henzler

         Pages 161-175

      2. Kinetic Coefficients in a System Far from Equilibrium

         • Paolo Politi, Jacques Villain

         Pages 177-189

      3. Equilibrium Shape of an Epitaxial Cluster

         • Christophe Duport, Jacques Villain, Catherine Priester

         Pages 191-196

      4. Submonolayer Island Formation and Subsequent Multilayer Kinetic Roughening During Metal(100) Homoepitaxy: Fe, Ag & Cu

         • J. W. Evans, M. C. Bartelt

         Pages 197-207

      5. Kinetic Roughening During Ag Homoepitaxy

         • W. C. Elliott, P. F. Miceli, T. Tse, P. W. Stephens

         Pages 209-217

      6. A Direct Measure of the Barrier to Interlayer Diffusion

         • K. R. Roos, M. C. Tringides

         Pages 219-225

The interest in the problem of surface diffusion has been steadily growing over the last fifteen years. This is clearly evident from the increase in the number of papers dealing with the problem, the development of new experimental techniques, and the specialized sessions focusing on diffusion in national and international meetings. Part of the driving force behind this increasing activity is our recently acquired ability to observe and possibly control atomic scale phenomena. It is now possible to look selectively at individual atomistic processes and to determine their relative importance during growth and reactions at surfaces. The number of researchers interested in this problem also has been growing steadily which generates the need for a good reference source to farniliarize newcomers to the problem. While the recent emphasis is on the role of diffusion during growth, there is also continuing progress on the more traditional aspects of the problem describing mass transport in an ensemble of particles. Such a description is based on the statistical mechanical analysis of a collection of particles that mutually interact and develop correlations. An average over the multitude of atomistic processes that operate under these conditions is necessary to fully describe the dynamics in the system.

• Epitaxy
• Helium-Atom-Streuung
• LEED
• metal
• surface
• transport

• Iowa State University, Ames, USA

  M. C. Tringides

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