Thermal properties of CO-Yb-substrate nanostructures
Kuzmin М.V. 1, Mittsev М.А. 1
1Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Email: m.kuzmin@mail.ioffe.ru

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Influence of adsorbed carbon monoxide molecules on the thermal properties of rare-earth metal ytterbium films of nanoscale thickness has been studied. The films are produced at room temperature by metal deposition on single-crystal silicon substrates with the Si(111) surface orientation or textured tungsten ribbons with the predominant (100) face. It is shown that the adsorbed molecules hinder evaporation of ytterbium. The strength of such hindering is dependent on the chemical nature of substrate material. It is established that the substrates affect the state of adsorbed molecules through the nanofilms. This in turn influences on the evaporation rate of nanolayer material. Keywords: thermal stability of nanofilms, surface, adsorbed molecules, carbon monoxide, ytterbium, silicon, tungsten, Auger electron spectroscopy, mass spectrometry.
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