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Adsorbed molecules form ordered structures on the surface of metals exposed to an electric field

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Submonomolecular films deposited onto a metal surface in an electric field exhibit the phenomenon of self-organization. The ordering is manifested by the formation of molecular chains featuring the mass transfer. This results in the appearance of a stable dynamic network structure, which exists within a certain optimum temperature interval. It is suggested that this phenomenon is related to the electric interactions in a system of dipoles, one end of each dipole being free and another moving on the substrate surface with friction. Modeling of the evolution of this system with time qualitatively agrees with the experiment. These results can be used in high-voltage and vacuum electronics, space technologies, and nanoelectronics.

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    S. V. Zaitsev

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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 27, No. 11, 2001, pp. 19–23.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Za\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \)tsev.

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Zaitsev, S.V. Adsorbed molecules form ordered structures on the surface of metals exposed to an electric field. Tech. Phys. Lett. 27, 449–450 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1383821

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