STRUCTURE OF THE REDUCED TIO2(110) SURFACE DETERMINED BY SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY

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作者
ROHRER, GS
HENRICH, VE
BONNELL, DA
机构
[1] YALE UNIV,DEPT APPL MATH,SURFACE SCI LAB,NEW HAVEN,CT 06520
[2] UNIV PENN,DEPT MAT SCI & ENGN,PHILADELPHIA,PA 19104
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10.1126/science.250.4985.1239
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The scanning tunneling microscope has been used to image a reduced TiO 2(110) surface in ultrahigh vacuum. Structural units with periodicities ranging from 21 to 3.4 angstroms have been clearly imaged, demonstrating that atomic resolution imaging of an ionic, wide band gap (3.2 electron volts) semiconductor is possible. The observed surface structures can be explained by a model involving ordered arrangements of two-dimensional defects known as crystallographic shear planes and indicate that the topography of nonstoichiometric oxide surfaces can be complex.
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