Long-range ordering effects in metal-non-metal interfaces revisited

Abstract

The effect of long-range ordering across metal-non-metal interfaces is revisited. For this purpose, measurements of preferred orientations of low interfacial energy were made for Au and Ag on NaCl and Si substrates with and without amorphous silica and carbon interlayers. The results show that, when these interlayers are present, some of the preferred orientations disappear. For those orientation relationships which are observed, even in the presence of interlayers structural information transfer through the interlayer must occur.