Title of article
Controlled growth of uniform silver clusters on HOPG
Author/Authors
Wang، نويسنده , , L.L. and Ma، نويسنده , , X.C. and Qi، نويسنده , , Y. and Jiang، نويسنده , , P. R. JIA، نويسنده , , J.F. and Xue، نويسنده , , Q.K. and Jiao، نويسنده , , J. and Bao، نويسنده , , X.H.، نويسنده ,
Pages
5
From page
1
To page
5
Abstract
We have investigated growth of silver clusters on three different, i.e. normally cleaved, thermally oxidized and Ar+ ion sputtered highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), surfaces. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) observations reveal that uniformly sized and spaced Ag clusters only form on the sputtered surface. Ar+ sputtering introduces relatively uniform surface defects compared to other methods. These defects are found to serve as preferential sites for Ag cluster nucleation, which leads to the formation of uniform clusters.
Keywords
silver clusters , Scanning tunneling microscopy , Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
2051763
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