Surface structures of tellurium on Si(111)-(7x7) studied by low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy

Felix Lüpke, Jiří Doležal, Vasily Cherepanov +3

The Te-covered Si(111) surface has received recent interest as a template for the epitaxy of van der Waals (vdW) materials, e.g. Bi${}_2$Te${}_3$. Here, we report the formation of a Te…