Our photoemission spectroscopy results clearly demonstrate that symmetry breakdown in atomic arrangement brings about a lift of degeneracy in electronic states, leading to settle a long-standing controversy on a surface superstructure. We provide unambiguous evidences that Si(111)sqrt3xsqrt3-Ag has the inequivalent triangle structure (IET), excluding a long-lived honeycomb-chained triangle model. We also give critical experimental proof that the surface exhibits a disorder-order phase transition by cooling; the thermally fluctuating IET structure is frozen.
Electronic evidence of asymmetry in the Si(111)sqrt3xsqrt3-Ag structure
Ottaviani C;Cricenti A;
2003
Abstract
Our photoemission spectroscopy results clearly demonstrate that symmetry breakdown in atomic arrangement brings about a lift of degeneracy in electronic states, leading to settle a long-standing controversy on a surface superstructure. We provide unambiguous evidences that Si(111)sqrt3xsqrt3-Ag has the inequivalent triangle structure (IET), excluding a long-lived honeycomb-chained triangle model. We also give critical experimental proof that the surface exhibits a disorder-order phase transition by cooling; the thermally fluctuating IET structure is frozen.File in questo prodotto:
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