STEP–STEP INTERACTION ENERGY ONCu(111)VICINAL SURFACES

Margret Giesen () and Georg Schulze Icking-Konert
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Margret Giesen: Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und Vakuumphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D 52425 Jülich, Germany
Georg Schulze Icking-Konert: Institut für Grenzflächenforschung und Vakuumphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D 52425 Jülich, Germany

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 1999, vol. 06, issue 01, 27-34

Abstract: We have measured the terrace width distribution on copper (111) vicinal surfaces with (100) steps. For all surfaces, the distribution is well fitted by a Gaussian. The width of the Gaussian scales with the mean terrace widthL, which is indicative of a repulsive1/L2interaction potential between steps. We determine an interaction strength of the potential of3.2± 0.2meV per atom length. From the temperature-dependent analysis of the step–step distance distribution, we find a kink formation energy for (100) steps of0.12± 0.03eV, which is consistent with previous measurements of the kink energy on copper (100) vicinal surfaces.

Date: 1999
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