Giant missing row reconstruction of Au on Ge(001)

Houselt van, Arie and Fischer, Marinus and Poelsema, Bene and Zandvliet, Harold J.W. (2008) Giant missing row reconstruction of Au on Ge(001). Physical Review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 78 (23). p. 233410. ISSN 1098-0121

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Abstract:	We report on a giant missing row reconstruction emerging upon the adsorption and subsequent annealing of (sub)monolayer amounts of Au on Ge(001). The emerging microfacets are of (111) type and reminiscent of those in the well-known (2×1) missing row reconstruction of the clean (110) surfaces of the fcc transition metals Au, Ir, and Pt. The (111) microfacets are aligned along the [110] directions and decorated with Au atoms. The periodicity perpendicular to the ridges amounts to 1.6 nm. Surprisingly the corrugation of these Au-induced facets is found to be not less than 0.6 nm. The facets exhibit a (√3×√3)R30° reconstruction similar to the Au-induced reconstruction of Ge(111). Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements reveal that the top ridges consist of buckled Ge-dimer rows.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2008 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Catalytic Processes and Materials (CPM) Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials (PIN)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/73052
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.233410
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