AIP Advances (Jun 2018)

Thermionic emission microscopy of scandium thin film dewetting on W(100)

  • Michael Mroz,
  • Samuel Tenney,
  • Tatiana Savina,
  • Martin E. Kordesch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5039612
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 6
pp. 065114 – 065114-6

Abstract

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Scandium thin films of 5-30 nm thickness deposited on clean W(100) surfaces de-wet from the tungsten surface when heated to temperatures < 0.5 Tmelt. The dewetting temperature and the resulting droplet size are a function of the initial scandium film thickness.