Epitaxial growth of rare gas solids

Nucleation and growth of thin films

“…It is also known that the crystal growth of several rare gases proceeds on cleaned graphite in the layer growth mode (Price and Venables 1975, Kramer 1976, Venables and Smith 1977. For Xe and Kr there is a misfit relative to the J3X-h R30" structure (known as the & structure) of approximately +2 and -5%, respectively, in the crystal growth regime; rotated monolayer phases, with two domains, have been seen for Kr (Fain et a1 1980, Schabes-Retchkiman and, Ar (Shaw et a1 1978) and Ne (Calisti et a1 1982), where the misfit is numerically larger.…”

Scalability study of solid xenon

“…1 It is known to be relatively easy to produce small-scale clear and transparent solid noble element specimens that are virtually perfect crystals 2 [15]. The crystal structure [16][17][18][19] and microscopic defects [20] are important properties for experimental applications such as solar axion searches 3 [21]. However, for most particle detector applications, it is important to first understand the macroscopic properties such as density uniformity, optical transparency, charge drift velocity, scintillation, and ionization.…”

Scalability, scintillation readout and charge drift in a kilogram scale solid xenon particle detector

“…It is known to be relatively easy to produce small scale clear, transparent solid noble element specimens which are virtually perfect crystals but nevertheless are polycrystalline and contain a large number of microscopic defects [10]. The crystal structure [11,12,13,14], microscopic defects [15], and directionality are important properties for certain experimental applications [16]. However, for most particle detector applications, it is important to first understand the macroscopic properties such as density uniformity, optical transparency, charge drift velocity, scintillation, and ionization.…”