2009
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.80.193307
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Adsorbate-mediated step transformations and terrace rearrangement ofSi(100)(2×1)

Abstract: Scanning tunneling microscopy and density-functional theory have been combined to demonstrate structural transformations of steps of Si͑100͒-͑2 ϫ 1͒ induced by nondangling bond-terminated Cl adsorbates. We identify a stable, bridge-bonded step adsorption site and show that supersaturation facilitates the population of those sites, leading to rebonded atom etching, step retreat, and extensive terrace rearrangement from the diffusion of resultant atomic vacancy lines across the supersaturated surface. Similariti… Show more

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“…The absence of these bright features in our data suggests that the creation of dangling bonds is due to Cl desorption and not conversion to Cl(i). However, we cannot completely rule out the latter since the low diffusion barrier (0.3 eV to 0.4 eV) from one inserted site to another 41 is more easily overcome at these elevated temperatures, enabling Cl(i) to reach a more stable adsorption site at a step 45 .…”
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confidence: 95%
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“…The absence of these bright features in our data suggests that the creation of dangling bonds is due to Cl desorption and not conversion to Cl(i). However, we cannot completely rule out the latter since the low diffusion barrier (0.3 eV to 0.4 eV) from one inserted site to another 41 is more easily overcome at these elevated temperatures, enabling Cl(i) to reach a more stable adsorption site at a step 45 .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Cl 2 was generated from a solid-state, electrochemical cell consisting of AgCl doped with 5 wt % CdCl 2 59 . Cl exposures were done with the sample at roughly 600 K to minimize water contamination and limit Cl atom insertion into the surface 44,45,58,60 . This temperature was sufficient to ensure that any Cl(i) generated as a result of the chemisorption process can diffuse and attach at a dangling bond [43][44][45] , but low enough to prevent activation of etching and roughening processes 30,61 .…”
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“…For some systems or for some particular value of a tuning parameter, it may happen that the first correction-to-scaling term is close to zero, so that in some wide temperature region the system would behave as an infinite one, i.e., the correctionto-scaling terms are not important (see the discussion of such an extended scaling in Ref. [49]).…”
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“…The generalized crossover-scaling forms eqs. (31) and (32) are immediately shown to reduce to eqs. (7) and (8) in the N = 1 case, by using eqs.…”
Section: B the N ≥ 2 Modelsmentioning
confidence: 99%