Mica film scanning electron microscopy

Buchholz etal. [12] used scanning electron microscopy (SEM), STM, and LEED to study 100 nm films of Ag, Au, Pd, and Cr on mica. They saw increasing grain size and grain flattening as the substrate temperature during deposition increased from -150 to 400 = C. At 400 = C, terraces of more than 100 nm across were formed. Characteristic holes of a few tens of nanometers, as well as holes on the nanometer scale, were observed, which... 

The phase transition and microstmcture of as-deposited B-Fe, B-Co and B-Co-Fe alloy films on copper, mica, glass and NaCl single crystals were examined using differential scanning calorimetry and transmission electron microscopy by [1986Cha]. The microstracture appears to be either in the amorphous state or partially crystallized, depending on the composition of flie films. 

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