Branch counting probability approach to random sequential adsorption

I.M. IRURZUN; V.A. RANEA; E.E. MOLA

CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Año: 2005 vol. 408 p. 19 - 24

0009-2614

In a previous Letter we derived analytic expressions to describe the adsorption kinetics of trimers on two-dimensional arrays. As a prerequisite to find the average saturation coverage at the jamming limit (JL) we had to solve first the kinetic rate equation, which is a lengthy and troublesome task. This motivated us to derive a faster and easier procedure to determine JL. The method allows the exact determination of JL when a small two-dimensional lattice is bombarded by objects that occupy   2 contiguous lattice sites, and is applied on a 3x5 lattice ceaselessly bombarded by linear trimers.