Long jump rates in surface diffusion: W on W(110).
We have reexamined the diffusion of W adatoms on W(110) using the field ion microscope. The diffusivity is in good agreement with previous results and reveals no unusual features, but from observations of the distribution of displacements, corrected for diffusion during temperature transients, we have for the first time been able to measure the temperature dependence of rates for nearest-neighbor and double jumps, as well as for vertical and horizontal transitions. Activation energies and frequency factors for all the long jumps are significantly larger than for single jumps, and a simple model is proposed to account for our observations.
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Materials Research Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
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