Universal building block for (1 1 0)-family silicon and germanium surfaces
arXiv:2001.00332 · doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.07.144
Abstract
The universal building block which is an essential part of all atomic structures on (1 1 0) silicon and germanium surfaces and their vicinals is proposed from first-principles calculations and a comparison of results with available experimental data. The atomic models for the (1 1 0)-(16x2), (1 1 0)-c(8x10), (1 1 0)-(5x8) and (17 15 1)-(2x1) surface reconstructions are developed on the basis of the building block structure. The models exhibit very low surface energies and excellent agreements with bias-dependent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images. It is shown experimentally using STM that the Si(47 35 7) surface shares the same building block. Our study closes the long-debated pentagon structures on (1 1 0) silicon and germanium surfaces.
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