Abstract
The orientation of epitaxial iron films deposited on cleaved NaCl substrates is known to be determined solely by the nucleation process. Here, an effort is made to select a single orientation out of two dominant orientations, which are well recognized under normal evaporation conditions and have almost identical interfacial energies with respect to the substrate, based on the nucleation theory. The deposition rate of iron has been widely varied by a sublimation technique at fixed substrate temperatures and, at an extremely low deposition rate, the single orientation was found to be selected in accordance with the prediction of the nucleation theory. The effect of water vapor on the epitaxy of iron on rocksalts is reinterpreted in light of this experiment.
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