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Fabrication of Spatially Confined Complex Oxides
Published on: July 1, 2013
In situ atomic-scale visualization of oxide islanding during oxidation of Cu surfaces
Guangwen Zhou1, Langli Luo, Liang Li
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY 13902, USA. gzhou@binghamton.edu.
Abstract:
Oxidation of Cu occurs via Cu2O islanding on an oxide wetting layer at a critical thickness of two atomic layers. The transition from 2D wetting-layer growth to 3D oxide islanding is driven energetically arising from the Cu-Cu2O interfacial interaction.
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