Elastic and Chemical Contributions to the Stability of Magnetic Surface Alloys on Ru(0001)

Madhura Marathe, Mighfar Imam, Shobhana Narasimhan

We have used density functional theory to study the structural stability of surface alloys. Our systems consist of a single pseudomorphic layer of $M_x{N}_{1-x}$ on the Ru(0001) surf…