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Volumn 74, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 2058-2061

Brownian motion of vacancy islands on Ag(111)

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EID: 1642304512     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2058     Document Type: Article
Times cited : (179)

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    • By measuring the diffusivity at different temperatures, an activation barrier for diffusion of the vacancy islands could be determined. This barrier would correspond to the rate limiting step in the diffusion process, i.e., presumably detachment of kink atoms onto the terrace. Here, we provide a crude estimate for the involved activation barrier in a formal way. For this purpose we define a diffusion frequency by νD=4D/l02, where l0 is a formal single jump length of the vacancy island corresponding to the motion of one adatom across the vacancy island l0=a02/d, with a0=0.289 nm the lattice constant for Ag(111). Hence, νD=4Dd2/a02. Using Dd2=4.9 nm4/sec, derived from Fig. 4 and a “usual” prefactor of 1012sec-1, we obtain an activation energy of 0.5 eV. Compared to calculated values for the emission of adatoms from kink sites [c3], this is a reasonable result.


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