Metal growth

Brune H 1998 Microscopic view of epitaxial metal growth nucleation and aggregation Surf. Sc . Rep. 31 121... 

The fabrication of such a system can be accomplished only by nanofabrication, and different routes can be imagined in this context. We will focus in the following section on the template-controlled growth of metal clusters on thin oxide films, which has proven to give excellent results in terms of low complexity. This approach has been successfully employed for metal-on-metal systems (for a comprehensive review see [6]) and has recently been extended to metal growth on oxide films. 

H. Brune and K. Kern, Heteroepitaxial metal growth The effects of strain, in Growth and Properties of Ultrathin Epitaxial Layers, Vol. 8 of The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces and Heterogeneous Catalysis, eds. D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff (Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 1997), p. 149. 

L.N. Paritskaya, Yu.S. Kaganovskiy, V.V. Bogdanov. Kinetics and mechanisms of inter-metallic growth by bulk and surface interdiffusion // Metallofiz.Noveish.Tekhnol.-1999.- V.21, No.2.- P.26-34. 

Coordination polymerization is yet another variation on the same theme. Here, polymerization is initiated by attachment of a monomer molecule to a metal complex. The polymer grows by successive insertion of monomer molecules at the metal. Growth stops when the metal complex detaches itself or the reactive center becomes deactivated by some intended or inadvertent event. Stereo-specific polymers can be produced. 

Metal on metal growth is an alternative way to obtain original bi-metallic surfaces. Well controlled atomic beam deposition allows to generate thin layers slightly out of equilibrium, if one works at moderate temperatures. In this way new 2D surface alloys can be generated which have no bulk analog. Therefore, they can have stmctures, and hence chemical properties different from those of the surface of bulky alloys. 

H. Brune, Microscopic view of epitaxial metal growth Nucleation and aggregation. Surf. Sci. Rep. 31, 121-230, 1998. 

In case of the n-type material obtained using a powder mixture source material, the value n were much lower than that of the material obtained from metal-growth crystal. 

Jennings, C. W. in "How to Avoid Metallic Growth Problems on Electronic Hardware", IPC-TR-476, Institute of Printed Circuits, Evanston, Illinois, 1977 p 25. 

By comparing cyclic voltammetry with in-situ STM recorded simultaneously it seems that the cathodic current peak of bulk metal electrodeposition reflects the termination of metal deposition rather than a potential of maximum metal growth [11]. 

Vicinal Au surfaces seem to have a great potential as 2D templates not only for metal growth but also for the fabrication of ordered molecular assemblies. 

Insulating Passive Films on Metals Growth, and Corrosion of Al as Example... 

S K mode. Thus, the metal growth mode on the substrate can be estimated qualitatively from the properties of both deposited and substrate metals. 

Gundyrev V.M., Belova N.V., Esin V.O.(1973) Single crystal refractory and rare metals growth, Nauka Publishers, Moscow. 

---