Title

The Crossover From Collective Motion To Periphery Diffusion For Two-Dimensional Adatom-Islands On Cu(111)

Abstract

The diffusion of two-dimensional adatom-islands (up to 100 atoms) on Cu(111) has been studied, using the self-learning kinetic Monte Carlo method (Trushin etal 2005 Phys. Rev. B 72 115401). A variety of multiple-and single-atom processes are revealed in the simulations, and the size dependences of the diffusion coefficients and effective diffusion barriers are calculated for each. From the tabulated frequencies of events found in the simulation, we show a crossover from diffusion due to the collective motion of the island to a regime in which the island diffuses through periphery-dominated mass transport. This crossover occurs for island sizes between 13 and 19 atoms. For islands containing 19100 atoms the scaling exponent is 1.5, which is in good agreement with previous work. The diffusion of islands containing 213 atoms can be explained primarily on the basis of a linear increase of the barrier for the collective motion with the size of the island. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Publication Date

11-23-2011

Publication Title

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volume

23

Issue

46

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/23/46/462201

Socpus ID

80755168042 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/80755168042

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