INVESTIGATION OF ATOM-RESOLVED DOMAIN BOUNDARIES ON SI(111)7X7 SURFACES BY SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY

被引:9
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作者
GU, QJ [1 ]
MA, ZL [1 ]
LIU, N [1 ]
GE, X [1 ]
ZHAO, WB [1 ]
XUE, ZQ [1 ]
PANG, SJ [1 ]
HUA, ZY [1 ]
机构
[1] CHINESE ACAD SCI,BEIJING LAB VACUUM PHYS,BEIJING 100080,PEOPLES R CHINA
关键词
LOW INDEX SINGLE CRYSTAL SURFACES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILICON; SURFACE DEFECTS; SURFACE RELAXATION AND RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; ROUGHNESS; AND TOPOGRAPHY;
D O I
10.1016/0039-6028(94)00848-5
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Several regular defects along domain boundaries of clean Si(111)7 x 7 surfaces have been observed with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), Combined with the dimer-adatom-stacking fault (DAS) model, their detailed atom structures are discussed. We have found three important elementary factors that determine the boundary structure. The most important factor is the strong interaction between dimer and adatom. The next, in some cases, is the difference between faulted half and unfaulted half. The third factor are other metastable triangle subunit structures (e.g. 5 x 5, etc.). Under certain conditions the atoms along the domain boundary will adjust to form such structures.
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页码:241 / 247
页数:7
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