Colloquium: Cluster growth on surfaces: Densities, size distributions, and morphologies

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Author list: Einax M, Dieterich W, Maass P

Publisher: American Physical Society

Place: COLLEGE PK

Publication year: 2013

Journal: Reviews of Modern Physics (0034-6861)

Journal acronym: REV MOD PHYS

Volume number: 85

Issue number: 3

Start page: 921

End page: 939

Number of pages: 19

ISSN: 0034-6861

eISSN: 1539-0756

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

Understanding and control of cluster and thin-film growth on solid surfaces is a subject of intensive research to develop nanomaterials with new physical properties. In this Colloquium a review of basic theoretical concepts to describe submonolayer growth kinetics under nonequilibrium conditions is given. It is shown how these concepts can be extended and further developed to treat self-organized cluster formation in material systems of current interest, such as nanoalloys and molecular clusters in organic thin-film growth. The presentation is focused on ideal flat surfaces to limit the scope and to discuss key ideas in a transparent way. Open experimental and theoretical challenges are pointed out.

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