Effect of ionization of condensing flux and transverse electric field on nucleation of metal films on ionic crystals

Experimental data on the effect of ions in the flux of condensing metal on the orientation of island metal films on alkali halide crystals are given. The effect of ionization of the condensing flux and the transverse electric field is explained on the basis of a previously proposed model of nucleation and oriented growth on point defects on the crystalline substrate.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 35–39, November, 1979.