Abstract
It has been puzzling why for Pb/Si(111), oscillations have been observed at temperatures as low as 18 K and were found to improve with decreasing temperature. With scanning tunneling microscope we have directly observed this ideal layer by layer growth. A dramatic dependence of the second layer island morphology on island height, expected from quantum size effects (QSE), is also found. Low density of fractal islands on stable vs high density on unstable Pb islands on a mixed height island confirms the role of QSE in kinetics. The low diffusion barrier and the fractal island morphology can explain the unusual layer by layer growth.
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