Determination of surface stress anisotropy from domain wall fluctuations

Zandvliet, H.J.W. and Poelsema, Bene (1999) Determination of surface stress anisotropy from domain wall fluctuations. Physical Review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 59 (11). pp. 7289-7292. ISSN 1098-0121

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Abstract:	The thermally induced meandering of domain walls between (2×1) and c(4×2) regions on Ge(001) is analyzed with a scanning tunneling microscope in order to extract the anisotropy of the surface stress tensor. On small length scales the domain walls exhibit random walker behavior, whereas on larger length scales (>100 Å) due to domain-wall repulsion originating from the anisotropy in the surface stress tensor a deviation from this one-dimensional random-walk behavior is observed. We have determined a value of 0.13±0.04eV/(1×1) cell for the stress anisotropy.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 1999 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials (PIN)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/73146
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.7289
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