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1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Avenida Litorânea s/n, 24210-340 Niterói RJ, Brazil.
Abstract:
Random sequential adsorption of linear and square particles with excluded volume interaction is studied numerically on planar lattices considering Gaussian distributions of lateral sizes of the incident particles, with several values of the average μ and of the width-to-average ratio w. When the coverage θ is plotted as function of the logarithm of time t, the maximum slope is attained at a time t_{M} of the same order of the time τ of incidence of one monolayer, which is related to the molecular flux and/or sticking coefficients. For various μ and w, we obtain 1.5τ
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