Ag growth on Si(111) with an Sb surfactant investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy

Surface Science

Volumn 380, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 258-263

  Park, Kang Ho ^a   Ha, Jeong Sook ^a   Park, Seong Ju ^b   Lee, El Hang ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antimony; Heterojunctions; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Silicon; Silver; Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; COALESCENCE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; FILM GROWTH; METALLIC FILMS; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

SILVER;

EID: 0031145082     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(96)01573-7     Document Type: Article

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