Ag(001) or Ag(111) at between 300 and 65K. The growth on all of these surfaces exhibited a consistent trend towards a large compressive strain that was attributed to the incorporation of vacancies into the growing film below 160K. In each case, the vacancy concentration was about 2% at 110K and the temperature dependence for incorporation onto the (001) surfaces was measured; as well as the annealing behavior of Cu(001). These results suggested the operation of new kinetic mechanisms.

Vacancy Trapping and Annealing in Noble-Metal Films Grown at Low Temperature. C.E.Botez, K.Li, E.D.Lu, W.C.Elliott, P.F.Miceli, E.H.Conrad, P.W.Stephens: Applied Physics Letters, 2002, 81[25], 4718-20