Real-time scanning tunneling microscopy observation of Si(100)-(2 × 1)→(2 × n)→c(4 × 4) structural phase transitions

Surface Science

Volumn 397, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages

  Lin, Deng Sung ^a   Wu, Perng Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Scanning tunneling microscopy; Silicon; Surface thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 0031991971     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(97)00868-6     Document Type: Article

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