Journal article

Publication year: 2005

Pages: 75432-

Journal: Physical Review B

Volume number: 72

Issue number: 7

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.075432

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 

Rhodium grows on single-crystal Ru(0001) surface initially layer by layer, adapting the in-plane lattice parameters of Ru(0001) (pseudomorphic growth). Using quantitative low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we determined the atomic structures of 1-monolayer (ML), 2-ML, and 3-ML Rh films on Ru(0001). The 1-ML Rh film continues the hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) stacking sequence of Ru(0001) (…ABAb), while the 2-ML Rh film already adopts its face-centered-cubic (fcc) stacking sequence (…ABAbc) if the topmost Ru layer is included into the stacking consideration. Three MLs of Rh form a fcc stacking sequence of …ABAbac, requiring a massive restructuring of the second Rh layer when adding one ML of Rh onto the 2-ML Rh film.

Harvard Citation style: Yunbin, H., Seitsonen, A. and Over, H. (2005) Irregular stacking sequence in the initial growth of ultrathin Rh films on Ru(0001), Physical Review B, 72(7), p. 75432. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.075432

APA Citation style: Yunbin, H., Seitsonen, A., & Over, H. (2005). Irregular stacking sequence in the initial growth of ultrathin Rh films on Ru(0001). Physical Review B. 72(7), 75432. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.075432