About the effective temperature of crystal surfaces

Abstract

Abstract Temperature dependences of self‐diffusion coefficients, scattered electron intensities, lattice parameters and atomic bond energies are considered. All curves representing the dependences are “splitted” into two linear ones: for a surface and for a volume of the crystal. This splitting can be eliminated and the lines representing the two linear dependences be matched, if a new variable T c = nT (where n is a scale factor and T e is an effective temperature) is introduced. The value of n is shown to vary over not a wide range (from 1.6 to 8) for all the processes considered and in all cases n > 1. A possible physical sense of the effective temperature has been considered.