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Modelling thin film growth in the Ag-Ti system

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posted on 2018-09-21, 13:51 authored by Ying Zhou, Adam Lloyd, Roger Smith, Steven KennySteven Kenny
Simulations of thin lm growth in the Ag-Ti system are presented using molecular dynamics combined with an adaptive kinetic Monte Carlo method (AKMC) with a modi ed embedded atom potential t to ab initio data for the surface energies. For the model, atoms are assumed to deposit normally with a kinetic energy of 1-3 eV, with a typical deposition rate of around 10 monolayers per second, similar to what might be expected in a sputter deposition process. For the growth of Ti on the Ag (100) and Ag (111) surfaces, the Ti adatoms prefer to exchange with the original surface layer atoms creating a mixed Ag/Ti surface. On a silver substrate, up to four mixed layers need to be formed before a pure Ti layer is obtained. Conversely, simulations of Ag depositing onto Ti (0001) showed that in the initial phase of growth, the Ag adatoms prefer to be separated before a complete rst layer of Ag was obtained in a close-packed structure. The implementation of a super-basin method within AKMC allowed the simulation of 0.4s of Ti growth on the Ag substrates, with up to 3 new layers added.

Funding

This work has been supported by AGC Glass Europe and the Loughborough High Performance Computing unit, funded by EPSRC grant EP/K000055/1.

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematical Sciences

Published in

Surface Science

Volume

679

Pages

154 - 162

Citation

ZHOU, Y. ... et al., 2019. Modelling thin film growth in the Ag-Ti system. Surface Science, 679, pp. 154-162.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Surface Science and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2018.08.020.

Acceptance date

2018-08-26

Publication date

2019

ISSN

0039-6028

Language

  • en