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We have considered the thermodynamics of the formation of cobalt clusters on the surface of a copper substrate and in its subsurface region. Free energies of the formation of surface and subsurface clusters are calculated, and their critical radii are estimated.
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Original Russian Text © M.N. Lubov, Yu.V. Trushin, 2015, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 104–110.
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Lubov, M.N., Trushin, Y.V. Thermodynamic determination of the critical radii of surface and subsurface cobalt clusters in the cobalt-copper system. Tech. Phys. Lett. 41, 102–105 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785015010277
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