A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) reconstruction
Other Condensed Matter
2009-02-17 v1
Abstract
A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) reconstruction is proposed. Based on scanning tunneling microscopy images of unprecedented resolution, low-energy electron diffraction data, and first-principles total-energy calculations, we demonstrate that the reconstructed Si(331) surface shares the same elementary building blocks as the Si(110)-(16x2) surface, establishing the pentamer as a universal building block for complex silicon surface reconstructions.
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@article{arxiv.0807.3875,
title = {A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) reconstruction},
author = {Corsin Battaglia and Katalin Gaal-Nagy and Claude Monney and Clement Didiot and Eike Fabian Schwier and Michael Gunnar Garnier and Giovanni Onida and Philipp Aebi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3875},
year = {2009}
}