Effects of adsorbates on submonolayer growth
arXiv:cond-mat/0111135
Abstract
The effects of adsorbates on nucleation and growth of two-dimensional islands is investigated by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and rate equation theory. The variation of island morphology with adsorbate parameters is discussed and the temperature-dependence of island density in the case of immobile adsorbates is studied in detail. A set of rate equations for the description of nucleation in the presence of predeposited mobile and immobile adsorbates is developed.
NATO ARW Colective surface diffusion coefficients under non-equilibrium conditions, October 2-6, 2000, Prague