Decoration of facets on silver
- 1 April 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine
- Vol. 9 (100), 645-658
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14786436408211877
Abstract
The facets produced on silver by thermal etching have been investigated in detail by examining decorated replicas of them in an electron microscope. Gold, condensed on the surface in vacuum, forms perfectly oriented sheets on the complex facets which contain many kink atoms. By contrast, the gold condenses on {100} and {111} planes as separated, randomly distributed, crystals with some preferred orientations. Atomic steps on these planes are decorated by preferential nucleation.Keywords
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