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Nucleation and Growth of Supported Metal Clusters at Defect Sites on Mgo and NaCl (001) Surfaces: The Cases of Pd and Ag

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

J. A. Venables
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287-1504, and School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
G. Haas
Affiliation:
Institut de Physique Experimental, EPFL, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
H. Brune
Affiliation:
Institut de Physique Experimental, EPFL, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
J.H. Harding
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College, Gower Street, London, UK
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Abstract

Nucleation and growth of metal clusters at defect sites is discussed in terms of rate equation models, which are applied to the cases of Pd and Ag on MgO(001) and NaCl(001) surfaces. Pd/MgO has been studied experimentally by variable temperature atomic force microscopy (AFM). The island density of Pd on Ar-cleaved surfaces was determined in-situ by AFM for a wide range of deposition temperature and flux, and stays constant over a remarkably wide range of parameters; for a particular flux, this plateau extends from 200 K ≤ T ≤ 600 K, but at higher temperatures the density decreases. The range of energies for defect trapping, adsorption, surface diffusion and pair binding are deduced, and compared with earlier data for Ag on NaCl, and with recent calculations for these metals on both NaCl and MgO

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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