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Microstructure Evolution Of Gold Atomic Aggregates Fabricated On Silicone Oil Surface

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  • YUANXIN FENG

    (Department of Physics, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, P. R. China)

  • CHUHANG ZHANG

    (Department of Physics, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, P. R. China)

Abstract

Gold atomic aggregates are fabricated by vapor-depositingAuatoms onto a silicone oil surface and the microstructure evolution is investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM) observation. It is found that theAuaggregates are composed ofAucircular nanoparticles with diameter around 45 nm, which is independent with the nominal film thicknessd. Asdincreases from 1 nm to 15 nm, the height of the nanoparticles increases from 15 nm to 25 nm, indicating the geometric shape of theAunanoparticles evolves from plateau to spherical. Furthermore, the roughness analysis shows that the mean surface roughness increases linearly withdin the range of 1 nm–15 nm, which is quite different from the findings inAgsystem. The anomalous microstructure evolution ofAuaggregates suggests that the growth ofAuaggregates may be dominated by the shadowing effect.

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  • Yuanxin Feng & Chuhang Zhang, 2015. "Microstructure Evolution Of Gold Atomic Aggregates Fabricated On Silicone Oil Surface," Surface Review and Letters (SRL), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(05), pages 1-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:srlxxx:v:22:y:2015:i:05:n:s0218625x15500663
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218625X15500663
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