Investigation of the structure of ultra-thin films of Fe on Cu(111) using medium-energy ion scattering

Thermal stability of epitaxial Fe films on GaN(0001)

“…10 and 11͒ analogous to the growth of Fe on both ͑111͒ fcc and ͑0001͒ hcp crystals. [12][13][14] However, nothing is currently known about the thermal stability of Fe layers on GaN.…”

“…This particular triple-domain orientation-relationship is known from the field of martensitic transformations as the Nishiyama-Wassermann relation. [10][11][12][13][14][15] Most remarkable, however, is the fact that the crystalline quality of the Fe film is greatly improved by annealing as seen by the continuous decrease of the full width at half maximum ͑FWHM͒ of the Fe͕211͖ reflections shown in Fig. 2͑b͒.…”

The structure formed by the deposition of a sub-monolayer quantity of platinum onto Cu(110) investigated using medium energy ion scattering

“…Previously, MEIS has been shown to be a valuable technique for the investigation of metal-on-metal systems and surface alloying [10,18,19,20,21]. It may be used to determine surface structures by a shadowing and blocking approach, giving layer-by-layer composition [22] and structural parameters with high accuracy [23,24].…”

Ultra-thin films and surface alloying of Pd on Cu(111) investigated by medium energy ion scattering

“…MEIS has been applied successfully to several metal-on-metal systems [7,8,9] We have employed MEIS to investigate ultra-thin films of palladium between 0.2 and 4 ML deposited onto Cu(111) at room temperature and for one case following a post-deposition anneal. The aim was to investigate the structure of these films and the composition of the top three layers of the surface.…”