Ag-induced zero- and one-dimensional nanostructures on vicinal Si(111)

2002/05/29 by J. Kuntze, A. Mugarza, Aitor Mugarza +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Magnetic properties of thin films #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena #cond-mat.mtrl-sci

paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.1509857

published as Appl. Phys. Lett. 81 (2002) p.2463 · 4 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

The formation of a Ag-stabilized regular step lattice on vicinal Si(111) miscut towards [112̄] is reported. The step bunching characteristic of the clean surface is prevented by single-domain Si(111)-(3×1)-Ag reconstruction. The nanostructured surface is used as a template for growing one-dimensional arrays of 1 nm sized Ag quantum dots with a preferential spacing of 1.5 nm along the rows.

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