EVALUATION OF THE HIGHLY COHERENT SURFACE-STRUCTURE OF THE GAAS (411)A PLANE USING SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY

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YAMADA, T
YAMAGUCHI, H
HORIKOSHI, Y
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10.1016/0022-0248(94)00856-6
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O7 [晶体学];
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0702 ; 070205 ; 0703 ; 080501 ;
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We have observed the surface structure of (411)A GaAs by atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscopy for the first time. A highly ordered structure of straight atomic rows stretching along the [01 $$($) over bar 1] direction was observed. The structure was found to be composed of two kinds of alternately arranged rows with different contrasts. From this image, a surface structure model was proposed. It was also indicated that the surface roughness of a (411)A surface must be smaller than that of a (100) surface due to the corrugated surface structure in the former case.
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