Molecular dynamics simulations of palladium cluster growth on flat and rough graphite surfaces

Parallel Molecular Dynamics simulations are conducted for describing growth on surfaces with different kind of roughness: a perfect ordered crystalline flat graphite surface, a disordered rough graphite surface and flat surface with an ordered localized defect. It is shown that disordered rough surfaces results in a first step to reduction of the sticking coefficient, increased cluster density, size reduction. Structure of the clusters shows the disappearance of the octahedral site characteristic of compact structure. Isolated defect induces cluster-cluster interactions that modify growth compared to perfect flat surface. Kinetic study of growth shows power law tαz evolution for low impinging atom kinetic energy. Increasing kinetic energy, on all kinds of surfaces, results in a slightly larger exponent z, but fitting by an exponential function is quite good too. Lattice expansion is favoured on rough surfaces but increasing incoming atom kinetic energy weakens this effect.

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Source ISSN: 1286-0042
Author Brault, Pascal, Moebs, Guy
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 7, 2026, 22:38 (UTC)
Created May 7, 2026, 22:38 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00091464
Language en
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contributor Groupe de recherches sur l'énergétique des milieux ionisés (GREMI) ; Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Brault, Pascal
date 2004-05-07T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2024-09-30T00:00:00
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