X-ray pole-figure study of the epitaxial growth of C60 thin films on mica (001) |
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Authors: | S. Henke K. H. Thürer S. Geier B. Rauschenbach B. Stritzker |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany |
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Abstract: | The growth of epitaxial C60 thin films on mica(001) by thermal evaporation has been studied in detail by X-ray pole-figure measurements. The influence of the deposition rate, the substrate temperature and the film thickness on the in-plane epitaxial arrangements and the formation of twins has been investigated. It has been demonstrated that the C60 growth is determined by two independent and equivalent C60-crystal grain alignments (type-A and type-B). The nearly six-fold symmetry of the mica(001)-substrate surface offers the three-fold fcc-(111)-oriented C60-crystal grains two equivalent crystal alignments. A high deposition rate of 0.5 Å/s is responsible for the formation of twins at a substrate temperature of 150°C, which diminishes by a higher substrate temperature of 200°C. By a decrease of the deposition rate down to 0.08 Å/s the twins vanish at a film thickness of 200 nm and at the substrate temperature of 150°C. Under the same sublimation conditions, in addition to the type-A and type-B crystal orientations, the growth of the thin C60 films starts with a slight fibre texture which does not appear at a larger film thickness. |
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Keywords: | 68.55 61.10 81.40.Ef |
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