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adatom

[′ad‚ad·əm]
(physical chemistry)
An atom adsorbed on a surface so that it will migrate over the surface.
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Pettenkofer, "The "adatom model" of SERS (Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering): The present status," Surface Science, vol.
The deposition rate has to be relatively low to provide a long adatom diffusion time [42], and accordingly, the growth of the nanowires is slow (typically it takes ten minutes to grow a ~10 [micro]m nanowire) [38, 86, 88].
One is the adsorptive sites and the other is the height between the adatom and substrate.
Terakura, "Effect of nitrogen doping on the migration of the carbon adatom and monovacancy in graphene," The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol.
The 2 x 2 surface is considered the most stable surface [19], while a 2 x 2 Ga adatom model is thermodynamically favored under moderately Garich conditions [20].
One such visible atom is a single oxygen atom that comes to rest on a titanium atom, called an "adatom".
Self-shadowing also implied that the newly deposited and weakly bound atoms, or adatom, mobility was significantly low and provided a means to help engineer the morphology by finding a means to either increase or decrease the mobility.
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