Capture Zone Area Distributions for Nucleation and Growth of Islands during Submonolayer Deposition (IMAGE)

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Capture Zone Area Distributions for Nucleation and Growth of Islands during Submonolayer Deposition

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Capture zones (CZs) constructed to surround 2-D islands (black rectangles) formed by deposition on a perfect surface. CZ boundaries are indicated by thin lines. The CZs completely cover or tessellate the surface with one CZ per island. A small CZ formed directly by nucleation of a new island near the center of a triangle of existing islands is shown in yellow. Another small CZ formed by corralling of the central island is shown in blue. The lower inset shows how nucleation of a new island (at the X) modifies the CZ distribution. The upper inset shows the distribution of scaled CZ areas.

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Yong Han, Maozhi Li and James W. Evans

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