Vacancy-Vacancy Interaction on Ge-Covered Si(001)
- 8 August 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (6), 850-853
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.850
Abstract
When Ge atoms are deposited onto a Si(001) substrate, dimer vacancies are created in the strained system. At sufficiently high concentrations, interactions between the vacancies cause them to line up, resulting in the () reconstruction. By analyzing the thermal fluctuations around the ideal () structure with scanning tunneling microscopy and using transfer matrix theory, the form of the dimer vacancy-vacancy interaction and a value for its magnitude have been determined.
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