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EVIDENCE from metal films grown inside electron diffractometers suggests that the earliest stage of film growth, when metals are deposited on amorphous substrates, is the formation of completely disordered clusters of atoms. In face-centred cubic metals the average thickness for this stage of growth is less than 10 Å, but with some body-centred cubic metals1,2 the amorphous phase persists to thicknesses more than 50 Å.
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GRIGSON, C. Amorphous Nucleation in Metals. Nature 213, 277–279 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213277c0
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