Abstract
Using large-scale kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations, we investigate the nonequilibrium surface growth of the fullerene ${\text{C}}_{60}$. Recently we have presented a self-consistent set of energy barriers that describes the nucleation and multilayer growth of ${\text{C}}_{60}$ for different temperatures and adsorption rates in quantitative agreement with experiments [Bommel et al., Nat. Commun. 5, 5388 (2014)]. We found that ${\text{C}}_{60}$ displays lateral diffusion resembling colloidal systems, however it has to overcome an atomlike energetic step-edge barrier for interlayer diffusion. Here we focus on the particle-resolved dynamics, and the interplay between surface morphology and particle dynamics during growth. Comparing ${\text{C}}_{60}$ growth with an atomlike system, we find significant differences in the evolution of the surface morphology, as well as the single-particle dynamics on the growing material landscape. By correlating the mean-squared displacement of particles with their current neighborhood, we can identify the influence of the different time scales that compete during growth and can pinpoint the differences between the two systems.
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