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- Title
Adsorption and growth of Al on Si(100) in the initial stage.
- Authors
Zhu, C.X.; Misawa, S.; Tsukahara, S.; Kawazu, A.; Pang, S.J.
- Abstract
Abstract. The adsorption structures and growth of Al on Si(100) have been intensively studied using scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The high-resolution STM images are presented to demonstrate that the Al-adsorbed Si(100) surface is accurately described by the parallel-dimer model. The structures at the ends of Al dimer rows are further discussed by means of the illustration of STM images taken from the occupied and unoccupied electronic state surfaces. The dimer termination is confirmed to be a stable structure at the end of an Al dimer row. Moreover, the growth behavior of Al on the Si(100) surface with coverages over 0.5 monolayer (ML) are also investigated on the basis of STM observations as a function of the Al coverage up to 1.4 ML. The STM images reveal that once a well-ordered Al 2 x 2 adlayer is formed at 0.5 ML, further deposition of Al results in the disappearance of the Al 2 x 2 phase without disruption of the Si 2 x 1 reconstruction. PACS: 68.55
- Subjects
ADSORPTION (Chemistry); SURFACES (Technology); ALUMINUM; SILICON; SCANNING tunneling microscopy
- Publication
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 1999, Vol 68, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0947-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s003390050869