Ultra-Thin Films on Complex Metallic Alloy Surfaces: A Perspective



Fournée, Vincent, Ledieu, Julian, Gaudry, Émilie, Sharma, Hem-Raj ORCID: 0000-0003-0456-6258 and McGrath, Ronan ORCID: 0000-0002-9880-5741
(2020) Ultra-Thin Films on Complex Metallic Alloy Surfaces: A Perspective. In: Recent Advances in Thin Films. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials . Springer Singapore, pp. 13-34. ISBN 9789811561153

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Abstract

Complex metallic alloys (CMAs) may be defined as those intermetallic compounds having large (>~nm) unit cell dimensions. This includes quasi crystals as a special case, the unit cell being infinite. The discovery of quasi crystals motivated the study of CMAs, and the surface science community became active in the field once stable samples of sufficient size were produced. While the initial surface science activity centred on clean surface preparation, increasingly the formation of thin films, both metallic and molecular grew in importance. In this chapter, we give a brief introduction to this topic and then focus on several current areas of interest. These include the growth and characterization of ultra-thin metallic films of diverse architectures, the formation through deposition of novel molecular overlayers and thin films, complex intermetallics such as surface alloys and the potential use of intermetallic surfaces for catalytic reactions.

Item Type: Book Section
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 28 Oct 2019 16:58
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:45
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-6116-0_2
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3059751