Oriented crystal growth on amorphous substrates using artificial surface-relief gratings
- 15 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 32 (6), 349-350
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90054
Abstract
Oriented crystal growth on an amorphous substrate has been achieved using an artificially created surface‐relief grating. Crystallites of KCl grown from a water solution onto a 320‐nm spatial‐period square‐wave grating in SiO2 nucleated preferentially at vertical steps and grew with 〈100〉 directions parallel to the grating axis. It is proposed that artificially created surface microstructures may provide a new means of manipulating the growth and orientation of crystalline overlayers.Keywords
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