TY - JOUR AU - Bleikamp, S. AU - Thoma, A. AU - Polop, C. AU - Pirug, G. AU - Linke, U. AU - Michely, T. TI - New Growth Mode through Decorated Twin Boundaries JO - Physical review letters VL - 96 SN - 0031-9007 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - PreJuSER-50976 SP - 115503 PY - 2006 N1 - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 AB - Scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction were used to investigate the growth of partly twinned Ir thin films on Ir(111). A transition from the expected layer-by-layer to a defect dominated growth mode with a fixed lateral length scale and increasing roughness is observed. During growth, the majority of the film is stably transformed to twinned stacking. This transition is initiated by the energetic avoidance of the formation of intrinsic stacking faults compared to two independent twin faults. The atomistic details of the defect kinetics are outlined. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000236249900041 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.115503 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/50976 ER -