Surface alloy model of p(2×2)Sb/Cu(001) from LEED I/V data

Autor: V. L. Shneerson, Shougo Higashi, Dilano K. Saldin, Hiroshi Tochihara
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Surface Science. 602:2473-2477
ISSN: 0039-6028
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2008.05.022
Popis: We report on the re-determination of the structure of p(2 × 2)Sb/Cu(0 0 1) from measured LEED I/V data. The structure solution is performed in two steps. First an approximate “image” of the surface structure model is found by an application to the measured data of the recently-proposed Phase and Amplitude Recovery and Diffraction Image Generation Method (PARADIGM). This reveals that the p(2 × 2) structure is formed by the protrusion of one atom out of four in the outermost surface layer. Since an Sb atom is larger than one of Cu, this suggests a possibility that the p(2 × 2) structure is formed by Sb substitution for one out of four Cu atoms in the outermost layer. Second, a tensor LEED refinement of the model suggested by the PARADIGM yields the same dominant top-layer substitutional model proposed in the earlier LEED study, but with a much lower reliability factor, making much less likely an admixture of other surface phases.
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