Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1867387 | Physics Letters A | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The effect of different vacancies on the morphology of the O-terminated Cu2O(111) surface has been studied through the first-principles calculations. Our results show that Cu and O vacancies trigger large relaxations and formation of two different facets. Our emulated STM images are in consistent with the experimental STM patterns. A sizeable magnetic moment (∼1.0 μB) was found for surfaces with either Cu or O vacancies. The calculated formation energies of surface vacancies (Efv) indicate that the deficient surfaces are more stable than the stoichiometric O-terminated (1×1)(1×1) surface, which is also in line with our results obtained from ab initio atomistic thermodynamics studies.
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Authors
Chong Li, Fei Wang, S.F. Li, Q. Sun, Yu Jia,