Crystallographic misfit

In this case the crystallographic misfit does not have any effect. The crystallographic misfit (mf) is defined as... 

Au(lOO) substrate showed a commensurate 2D Cuads overlayer at low A . UPD-OPD transition experiments yielded epitaxial growing 3D Cu islands. The fee Cu bulk spacing was reached after deposition of about 10 Cu monolayers. Different Cu spacing in between was explained by the formation of thermodynamically unstable bcc Cu within the first monolayers to adjust the crystallographic misfit [4.82]. 

The mechanism of growth of metal M on a foreign metallic substrate S is determined by the two most important parameters (1) the binding energy between M and M and M and S and (2) the crystallographic misfit between M and S. 

Crystallographic misfits as defined according to (3) (first line) and the status of the monolayer (second line) according to the results of an off-lattice Monte Carlo simulation. 

Lattice models are widely used in computer simulations to study the adsorption of atoms and molecules on surfaces, because they allow us to deal with a large number of particles at a relatively low computational cost. Furthermore, the assumption that particle adsorption can only occur at definite sites is a good approximation for some systems. Such is the case of the adsorption of Ag on Au, where there is no crystallographic misfit. For some systems, one also... 

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