Self-organized epitaxial growth on spontaneously nano-patterned templates

Sylvie Rousset; Bernard Croset; Yann Girard; Geoffroy Prévot; Vincent Repain; Stanislas Rohart

doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2004.11.010

Self-organized epitaxial growth on spontaneously nano-patterned templates

Presented by: Guy Laval

Sylvie Rousset ¹ ; Bernard Croset ²; Yann Girard ¹; Geoffroy Prévot ²; Vincent Repain ¹; Stanislas Rohart ¹

¹ Matériaux et phénoménes quantiques, université Paris 7, CNRS, case 7021, 2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
² Groupe de physique des solides, universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS, campus de Boucicaut, 140, rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France

Comptes Rendus. Physique, Self-organization on surfaces, Volume 6 (2005) no. 1, pp. 33-46.

Abstract
Résumé

Self-ordering at crystal surfaces has been the subject of intense efforts during the last ten years, since it has been recognized as a promising way for growing uniform nanostructures with regular sizes and spacings in the 1–100 nm range. In this article we give an overview of the self-organized nanostructures growth on spontaneously nano-patterned templates. A great variety of surfaces exhibits a nano-scale order at thermal equilibrium, including adsorbate-induced reconstruction, surface dislocations networks, vicinal surfaces or more complex systems. Continuum models have been proposed where long-range elastic interactions are responsible for spontaneous periodic domain formation. Today the comparison between experiments such as Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction experiments and calculations has lead to a great improvement of our fundamental understanding of the physics of self-ordering at crystal surfaces. Then, epitaxial growth on self-ordered surfaces leads to nanostructures organized growth. The present knowledge of modelization of such an heterogeneous growth using multi-scaled calculations is discussed. Such a high quality of both long-range and local ordered growth opens up the possibility of making measurements of physical properties of such nanostructures by macroscopic integration techniques.

Depuis une dizaine d'années, la découverte des phénomènes d'auto-organisation à la surface des cristaux a suscité un engouement croissant. La force motrice de ce phénomène est une interaction élastique à longue portée due aux contraintes intrinsèques des surfaces. Ce phénomène « naturel » permet d'élaborer toute une gamme de substrats pré-structurés de 1 à 100 nm, qui servent ensuite de guide à la croissance des nanostructures. L'objectif premier de cette croissance organisée par rapport à la croissance aléatoire est la réalisation de nanostructures dont la dispersion en taille est étroite. Ceci ouvre la voie aux études des propriétés individuelles et collectives de ces nano-objets par des techniques macroscopiques faisant des moyennes sur un grand nombre d'objets (mesures optiques, électroniques ou magnétiques).

Published online: 2005-01-01

DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2004.11.010

Keywords: Metal surfaces, Self-ordering, Nanostructures growth
Mots-clés : Surfaces métalliques, Auto-organisation, Croissance de nanostructures

Author's affiliations:

Sylvie Rousset ¹; Bernard Croset ²; Yann Girard ¹; Geoffroy Prévot ²; Vincent Repain ¹; Stanislas Rohart ¹

¹ Matériaux et phénoménes quantiques, université Paris 7, CNRS, case 7021, 2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
² Groupe de physique des solides, universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS, campus de Boucicaut, 140, rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France

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Sylvie Rousset; Bernard Croset; Yann Girard; Geoffroy Prévot; Vincent Repain; Stanislas Rohart. Self-organized epitaxial growth on spontaneously nano-patterned templates. Comptes Rendus. Physique, Self-organization on surfaces, Volume 6 (2005) no. 1, pp. 33-46. doi : 10.1016/j.crhy.2004.11.010. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.1016/j.crhy.2004.11.010/

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