Normal and abnormal grain growth in nanostructured gold film

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Ruffino, F ^a   Grimaldi, M G ^a   Bongiorno, C ^b   Giannazzo, F ^b   Roccaforte, F ^b   Raineri, V ^b   Spinella, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODEPOSITION; FILM GROWTH; GOLD; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; METALLIC FILMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABNORMAL GRAIN GROWTHS; ABNORMAL GRAINS; ABNORMAL GROWTHS; ATOMIC DIFFUSIONS; ATOMIC FORCES; BIMODAL GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; BOUNDARY COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FILM MORPHOLOGIES; GAUSSIAN; GOLD GRAINS; GRAIN GROWTH EXPONENTS; GRAIN RADIUS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAIN SIZES; GRAIN SURFACES; GROWTH MECHANISMS; KINETIC MECHANISMS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; NANO-GRAINS; NANOSTRUCTURED GOLDS; NORMAL GRAIN GROWTHS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SCALING LAW; SPUTTERING TECHNIQUES; STAGE OF GROWTHS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

GRAIN GROWTH;

EID: 62549147565     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3093681     Document Type: Article

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