Oxygen chemisorption on Cu(110): A model for the c(6×2) structure

Robert Krarup Feidenhans'l, Francois Grey, Mourits Nielsen, Flemming Besenbacher, F. Jensen, E. Laegsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Karsten Wedel Jacobsen, Jens Kehlet Nørskov, R. L. Johnson

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Abstract

From an interplay between scanning tunneling microscopy, surface x-ray-diffraction experiments, and theoretical predictions, an unequivocal structural model for the Cu(110)-c(6×2)O surface reconstruction is derived with ten Cu atoms within the c(6×2) unit cell, two of which form a Cu superstructure. A general picture evolves in which the present as well as the Cu(110)-(2×1)O and the Cu(100)-(2 √2 × √2 )R45°O reconstructions are stabilized by Cu-O-Cu chains directed along the [001] direction. The nucleation and growth of the c(6×2) structure occur preferentially at steps.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume65
Issue number16
Pages (from-to)2027-2030
ISSN0031-9007
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1990

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Copyright (1990) by the American Physical Society.

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