Equilibrium properties of Ag clusters on Pt(111) |
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Authors: | P Blandin C Massobrio J Buttet |
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Institution: | 1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, PHB Ecublens, Institut de Physique Expérimentale, CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Abstract: | Molecular dynamics simulations (MD) and Embedded Atom Method (EAM) potentials are employed to investigate the properties of small Ag clusters deposited on the (111) surface of Pt. The computation of the dissociation energies reveals the most stable structures up to 19 atoms, while MD simulations allow to extract the dynamical diffusion barrier for adatom, dimer and trimer. We obtain dissociation energies in the range of 0.3 eV for the trimer and 0.45 eV for the heptamer and a migration energy as low as 0.05 eV for the adatom. |
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