Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5426194 | Surface Science | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images recorded during dissolution of a half-monolayer Ge on a Ag(0Â 0Â 1) show that it proceeds by the disappearance of tetramer entities. Moreover, they reveal that the successive slowing down in the kinetics, observed during this dissolution, correspond to the formation of ordered 2D arrangements of tetramer vacancies. A lattice gas analysis of the latter predicts a very unusual sequence of pair interactions between these vacancies, probably mediated by the substrate.
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Authors
Hamid Oughaddou, Bernard Aufray, Jean-Paul Bibérian, Bénédicte Ealet, Guy Le Lay, Guy Tréglia, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman,