Metastable structures in the initial stages of Si homoepitaxy Surf. Rev. and Lett. 5, 1053 (1998).
B. Borovsky, M. Krueger, E. Ganz
We discuss the growth of the first six atoms of an epitaxial Si island on Si(001). The nucleation of a six-atom island is observed to rely on a conversion between two metastable four-atom structures. These results suggest that metastable configurations play an important role in epitaxial growth.
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