Stability of Single-Layer Islands on a Flat Substrate in Vacuum Deposition Processes
A. A. Bochkarev, V. I. Polyakova
Keywords: Langmuir sorption model, surface diffusion, nucleation, Kelvin–Thomson effect, condensation
Abstract
Conditions of unstable equilibrium of single-layer islands of the adsorbate and empty adsorption vacancies are studied. An analog of the Kelvin–Thomson effect for these islands is found. Appropriate corrections are made in the classical theory of nucleation.
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