An ultrahigh vacuum sputter source for in situ deposition of size-selected clusters: Ag on graphite
Marc-Hermann Schaffner; Jean-François Jeanneret; François Patthey; Wolf-Dieter Schneider; Marc-Hermann Schaffner; Institut de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Jean-François Jeanneret; Institut de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; François Patthey; Institut de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Wolf-Dieter Schneider; Institut de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Журнал:
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Дата:
1998-11-21
Аннотация:
The investigation of supported size-selected clusters by different surface science techniques requires stringent ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions during cluster deposition especially at low temperatures. The existing high-energy sputter sources used for cluster production in general do not fulfil this demand. We therefore have developed, built and tested a new fully bakeable ultrahigh vacuum-compatible version of the cluster source CORDIS (Cold Reflex Discharge Ion Source). As a first application, we present ultraviolet photoemission spectra (UPS) of size-selected clusters generated by this new cluster source and deposited on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG). We show evidence for cluster diffusion and island formation even down to low temperature (T = 70 K). These islands display a polycrystalline structure. After a short annealing, they are transformed into Ag films with (111) surface orientation.
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