title: Different growth regimes on prepatterned surfaces: consistent evidence from simulations and experiments.
abstract: Molecule deposition on a prepatterned substrate is a recently developed technique to generate desired structures of organic molecules on surfaces via self-organization. For the case of prepatterned stripes, the time-resolved process of structure formation is studied via lattice Monte Carlo simulations. By systematic variation of the interaction strength, three distinct growth regimes can be identified: localized growth, bulge formation, and cluster formation. All three growth regimes can be recovered in the experiment when choosing appropriate organic molecules. Some key microscopic observables, reflecting the properties of the structure formation, display a non-monotonous dependence on the interaction strength.
authors.affiliation: Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Corrensstr. 30, 48149 Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: Fabian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lied
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mues
authors.forename: Wenchong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heuer