TY - JOUR T1 - Smoothing of ultrathin silver films by transition metal seeding JF - Applied Physics Letters Y1 - 2006/ A1 - André Anders A1 - Eungsun Byon A1 - Dong-Ho Kim A1 - Kentaro Fukuda A1 - Sunnie H.N. Lim AB - The nucleation and coalescence of silver islands on coated glass was investigated by in-situ measurements of the sheet resistance. Sub-monolayer amounts of transition metals (Nb, Ti, Ni, Cr, Zr, Ta, and Mo) were deposited prior to the deposition of silver. It was found that some, but not all, of the transition metals lead to coalescence of silver at nominally thinner films with smoother topology. The smoothing effect of the transition metal at sub-monolayer thickness can be explained by a thermodynamic model of surface energies. U1 -

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