Fabrication and Physical Properties of Mono- and Multilayer Metallic Nanostructures

Abstract

Analysis of the literature data shows that the study of surface-deposited metallic nanostructures is an actual problem of surface physics. The final structure of thin films depends on a large number of parameters and factors such as the differences between the unit-cells’ sizes as well as between the coefficients of a thermal expansion of a deposited substance and substrate that leads to internal stresses and a subsequent degradation of film. Many parameters such as temperature and a substrate structure, a deposition rate, fragmentation of nanoclusters, wetting parameters, time of application, dishsample distance, pressure in a chamber, and temperature of melt in a dish can play an important role during the mono- and multilayer structures’ formation. The goal-directed control of these parameters allows prediction and fabrication of surface structures with a required set of the physical and chemical properties.

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