Scaling behavior of the surface roughness of platinum films grown by oblique angle deposition
- 17 March 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 77 (11), 115427
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.77.115427
Abstract
Thin platinum films with well-controlled rough surface morphologies are grown by e-gun evaporation at an oblique angle of incidence between the deposition flux and the substrate normal. Atomic force microscopy is used to determine the root-mean-square value w of the surface roughness on the respective surfaces. From the scaling behavior of w, we find that while the roughness exponent α remains nearly unchanged at about 0.90, the growth exponent β changes from 0.49±0.04 to 0.26±0.01 as the deposition angle approaches grazing incidence. The values of the growth exponent β indicate that the film growth is influenced by both surface diffusion and shadowing effects, while the observed change from 0.49 to 0.26 can be attributed to differences in the relative importance of diffusion and shadowing with the deposition angle.Keywords
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