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The ion-sputtering induced transient enhanced intermixing has been studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in Pt/Ti and its anomalous nature has been explained as a superdiffusive transient enhanced interdiffusion. We find ballistic…
Probing the anomalous nanoscale intermixing using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in Pt/Ti bilayer we reveal the superdiffusive nature of interfacial atomic transport. It is shown that the Pt atoms undergo anomalous atomic transport…
The ion-sputtering induced intermixing is studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and by Auger electron spectroscopy depth profiling (AES-DP) analysis in Pt/Ti/Si substrate (Pt/Ti) and Ta/Ti/Pt/Si substrate (Ti/Pt) multilayers.…
The ion-sputtering induced intermixing is studied by Monte-Carlo TRIM, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and Auger electron spectroscopy depth profiling (AES-DP) analysis in Pt/Ti/Si substrate (Pt/Ti) and Ta/Ti/Pt/Si substrate (Ti/Pt)…
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