Oxygen chemisorption on Cu(110): A model for thec(6×2) structure
Author(s) -
R. Feidenhans’l,
F. Grey,
M. Nielsen,
Flemming Besenbacher,
Flemming Jensen,
Erik Lægsgaard,
I. Stensgaard,
Karsten W. Jacobsen,
Jens K. Nørskov,
Robert L. Johnson
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.65.2027
Subject(s) - scanning tunneling microscope , chemisorption , crystallography , physics , superstructure , nucleation , materials science , condensed matter physics , chemistry , thermodynamics , adsorption
From an interplay between scanning tunneling microscopy, surface x-ray-diffraction experiments, and theoretical predictions, an unequivocal structural model for the Cu(110)-c(6×2)O surface reconstruction is derived with ten Cu atoms within the c(6×2) unit cell, two of which form a Cu superstructure. A general picture evolves in which the present as well as the Cu(110)-(2×1)O and the Cu(100)-(2 √2 × √2 )R45°O reconstructions are stabilized by Cu-O-Cu chains directed along the [001] direction. The nucleation and growth of the c(6×2) structure occur preferentially at steps
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