7 × 7 Reconstruction on Si(111) Resolved in Real Space
Abstract
The 7 × 7 reconstruction on Si(111) was observed in real space by scanning tunneling microscopy. The experiment strongly favors a modified adatom model with 12 adatoms per unit cell and an inhomogeneously relaxed underlying top layer.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.120
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhRvL..50..120B
- Keywords:
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- Crystal Structure;
- Crystal Surfaces;
- Silicon;
- Solid State Physics;
- Atomic Structure;
- Charge Transfer;
- Crystallography;
- Microscopes;
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy;
- Solid-State Physics;
- 68.20.+t;
- 73.40.Gk;
- Tunneling