Determination of preferential rare earth adatom adsorption geometries on Si(001)

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 373, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 3459-3463

  Shinde, Aniketa ^a,b   Cao, Juexian ^a   Ouyang, Wenjie ^a   Wu, Ruqian ^a   Ragan, Regina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Formation energy; Rare earth disilicide; Scanning probe microscopy; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

ADATOMS; ADSORPTION; CALCULATIONS; GEOMETRY; RARE EARTHS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILICON;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ADSORPTION GEOMETRIES; ADSORPTION PATTERNS; COULOMB REPULSIONS; DISILICIDES; FORMATION ENERGIES; STABLE CONFIGURATION; VICINAL SI(001) SUBSTRATE;

BINDING ENERGY;

EID: 69049108568     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2009.07.064     Document Type: Article

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