A model for the Auger electron spectroscopy of systems exhibiting layer growth, and its application to the deposition of silver on nickel

The influence of electron confinement, quantum size effects, and film morphology on the dispersion and the damping of plasmonic modes in Ag and Au thin films

“…The morphology of Ag/Ni(1 1 1) has been studied by AES and LEED [271][272][273][274][275][276], ARPES [115] and TOF-ICISS [267,277]. However, the obtained results show quite large incongruities: some authors observed a flat growth [265,275] up to a critical coverage of about 0.7 Ag ML, while in other works the growth process seems to be dependent on the growth temperature [267,272,278]. QMD simulations and LEED experiments [271] on the early stages of Ag growth on Ni(1 1 1) at RT indicate the (7 Â 7) reconstruction of the Ag overlayer.…”

Surface-interface exploration of Mg deposited on Si(100) and oxidation effect on interfacial layer

“…From the shape of the curves, one can deduce the growth mode mechanism. 23 A logarithmic representation of the Auger Si_(92 eV) signal versus deposition time is given in Figure 1(b), where a nearly linear decay corresponding to an exponential attenuation of the substrate intensity is observed. This reveals a layer-by-layer growth mode for Mg at RT 24 where each break on the curves corresponds to a monolayer completion (highlighted by vertical lines on Figure 1 It is reasonable to assume that one Mg ML corresponds in Figure 1(a) to the first break observed on the Si and Mg signals after 21 s of deposition (as expected for a layer-bylayer growth mode).…”

Determination of Submonolayer Coverages Using Auger Escape Depths

“…General nature of the linear relationship between p-p height, h, and coverage, Θ (0 < Θ < 1), was confirmed experimentally many times (e.g. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]). The appropriate formulae may be written as…”