GE-DIMER RELAXATION ON SI(100)

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作者
JIN, JM [1 ]
LEWIS, LJ [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MONTREAL,RECH PHYS & TECHNOL COUCHES MINCES GRP,MONTREAL H3C 3J7,PQ,CANADA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1994年 / 49卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.49.2201
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We employ ab initio total-energy-minimization techniques to study the relaxation of Ge dimers on Si(100). We find that the dimers adopt an asymmetric configuration, in agreement with recent experimental results [E. Fontes et al., Phys. Rev, Lett. 70, 2790 (1993)]. The average dimer height displacement and tilting angle are found to be 0.79 Angstrom and +19 degrees, respectively. Our calculations predict that the (2 x 2) and c(4 x 4) reconstructed structures have the same energy, and suggest that either one of these two could be the ground-state structure.
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页码:2201 / 2204
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