Scanning tunnelling microscopy investigation of the oxygen-induced faceting and "nano-faceting" of a vicinal copper surface

Surface Science

Volumn 376, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 374-388

  Knight, P J ^a   Driver, S M ^a   Woodruff, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copper; Faceting; Oxygen; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Surface melting; Surface structure, morphology, roughness, and topography; Vicinal single crystal surfaces

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CHEMISORPTION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; MELTING; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ADATOM DIFFUSION; OXYGEN INDUCED FACETING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COPPER;

EID: 0031123984     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(96)01328-3     Document Type: Article

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