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Formation of adsorbate structures induced by external electric field in plasma-condensate systems

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-07-04 v1

Abstract

We present a new model of plasma-condensate system, by taking into account an anisotropy of transference reactions of adatoms between neighbor layers of multi-layer system, caused by the strength of the electric field near substrate. We discuss an influence of the strength of the electric field onto first-order phase transitions and conditions for adsorbate patterning in plasma-condensate systems. It is shown that separated pyramidal-like multi-layer adsorbate islands can be formed in the plasma-condensate system if the strength of the electric field near substrate becomes larger tan the critical value, which depends on the interaction energy of adsorbate and adsorption coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.1712.09834,
  title  = {Formation of adsorbate structures induced by external electric field in plasma-condensate systems},
  author = {Vasyl O. Kharchenko and Alina V. Dvornichenko and Vadym N. Borysiuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09834},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 8 figures