| | Preface | | |
| | List of abbreviations | | |
| | List of symbols | | |
1 | | Atomic diffusion on surfaces | | 1 |
1.1 | | Diffusivities: an introduction | | 1 |
1.2 | | Distribution of atomic displacements | | 7 |
1.3 | | Jump rates | | 17 |
2 | | Determination of adatom movements | | 24 |
2.1 | | Field ion microscopy | | 24 |
2.2 | | Field electron emission microscopy | | 29 |
2.3 | | Scanning tunneling microscopy | | 31 |
2.4 | | FIM measurement of diffusivity | | 34 |
2.5 | | Displacement distributions | | 44 |
2.6 | | STM measurements of diffusion | | 46 |
2.7 | | Other measurement techniques | | 53 |
2.8 | | Theoretical estimates | | 56 |
3 | | Atomic events in surface diffusion | | 64 |
3.1 | | Adatom binding sites | | 64 |
3.2 | | Atomic jumps in diffusion | | 86 |
3.3 | | Long jumps in surface diffusion | | 116 |
3.4 | | Transient diffusion | | 146 |
4 | | Diffusion on one-dimensional surfaces | | 183 |
4.1 | | Aluminum: A1(110), (311), (331) | | 184 |
4.2 | | Nickel: Ni(110) | | 186 |
4.3 | | Nickel: Ni(311) and Ni(331) | | 193 |
4.4 | | Copper: Cu(110), Cu(311), Cu(331) | | 194 |
4.5 | | Molybdenum: Mo(211) | | 200 |
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