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Abstract:
Diffusion and decay of alloyed Cu=Ag islands are investigated in the size range from 1 to 40 nm2 on
Ag(100) at room temperature with fast-scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory.
While islands at sizes above 7 nm2 show the diffusion and decay behavior expected for dynamics based on
single atom hopping, islands smaller than 4 nm2 diffuse faster and decay slower than predicted by
standard theory. This anomalous behavior at unexpected large island sizes is related to a size dependent
dealloying of the Cu=Ag islands.
