Critical thickness of contact melting in the Au/Ge layered film system

AP Kryshtal, RV Sukhov, AA Minenkov - Journal of alloys and compounds, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigate the melting behavior of Au/Ge bilayer (Ge: 5 or 2nm; Au: 0.1–1.1 nm) thin
films using transmission electron microscopy and high energy electron diffraction. It was …

Boron nitride monolayer growth on vicinal Ni (1 1 1) surfaces systematically studied with a curved crystal

L Fernández, AA Makarova, C Laubschat… - 2D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The structural and electronic properties of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) grown on stepped
Ni surfaces are systematically investigated using a cylindrical Ni crystal as a tunable …

Growth of metallic nanowires on anisotropic Si substrates: Pb on vicinal Si (0 0 1), Si (7 5 5), Si (5 3 3), and Si (1 1 0)

M Jałochowski, E Bauer - Surface science, 2001 - Elsevier
The spontaneous formation of mesoscopic Pb-wires, on 4° off-cut Si (001) vicinal surface, Si
(755), Si (533), and Si (110) substrates was studied by low-energy electron microscopy …

Spatial variation of Au coverage as the driving force for nanoscopic pattern formation

FJM zu Heringdorf, T Schmidt, S Heun, R Hild, P Zahl… - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
Au induced faceting of a 4 vicinal Si (001) surface was studied with chemical resolution
using soft x-ray photoemission electron microscopy. For the first time a direct and …

Kinetics of Au induced faceting of vicinal Si (111)

R Hild, C Seifert, M Kammler, FJM zu Heringdorf… - Surface science, 2002 - Elsevier
Au induced faceting of vicinal Si (111) has been studied during adsorption at elevated
temperature by spot profile analyzing of low energy electron diffraction and after quenching …

Study of Au-induced reconstruction on Si (0 0 1) surface by scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction

M Kageshima, Y Torii, Y Tano, O Takeuchi, A Kawazu - Surface science, 2001 - Elsevier
Surface reconstruction phases of Au/Si (001) system were studied with scanning tunneling
microscopy and low energy electron diffraction in a converge range of 0.3–2.5 ML and an …

STM topography and manipulation of single Au atoms on Si (100)

F Chiaravalloti, D Riedel, G Dujardin, HP Pinto… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
The low-temperature (12 K) adsorption of single Au atoms on Si (100) is studied by scanning
tunneling microscopy (STM). Comparison between experimental and calculated STM …

LEEM, SPLEEM and SPELEEM

E Bauer - Springer Handbook of Microscopy, 2019 - Springer
This chapter discusses some of the most important imaging methods with low-energy
electrons, including: low-energy electron microscopy (), its extension to spin-polarized low …

Driving forces for Ag-induced periodic faceting of vicinal Cu (111)

AR Bachmann, S Speller, A Mugarza, JE Ortega - Surface Science, 2003 - Elsevier
Adsorption of submonolayer amounts of Ag on vicinal Cu (111) induces periodic faceting.
The equilibrium structure is characterized by Ag-covered facets that alternate with clean Cu …

Au induced reconstructions on Si (1 1 1)

C Seifert, R Hild, M Horn-von Hoegen, RA Zhachuk… - Surface science, 2001 - Elsevier
Au adsorption induces a vast variety of different reconstructions on Si (111). In a combined
scanning tunneling microscopy and spot-profile analysis-low energy electron diffraction …