Self‐organized nanotemplating on misfit dislocation networks investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy

• DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20479
• Publication Date: 2007-05-04T14:24:10Z
• Authors: Bogdan Diaconescu; Georgi Nenchev; Joshua Jones; Karsten Pohl
• Keywords: Length scale

Self-ordering growth of nanoarrays on strained metallic interfaces is an attractive option for preparing highly ordered nanotemplates. The great potential this natural templating approach that symmetry, feature sizes, and density are predicted to depend the interfacial stress in these layers, which can be adjusted by changing substrate-thin film composition, temperature, adlayer coverage. This bottom-up growing nanostructured two-dimensional arrays clusters misfit dislocation networks thin films surfaces requires a detailed understanding nucleation film-adsorbate interaction processes. Here we show how high resolution, large scale, variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy imaging improve our self-assembly