Linking surface stress to surface structure: measurement of atomic strain in a surface alloy using scanning tunneling

¹Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, USA.

|July 30, 2002

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Annealed submonolayer CoAg/Ru(0001) films form an alloy with a structure that contains droplets of Ag surrounded by Co [G. E. Thayer, V. Ozolins, A. K. Schmid, N. C. Bartelt, M. Asta, J. J. Hoyt, S. Chiang, and R. Q. Hwang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 660 (2001)]. To understand how surface stress contributes to the formation of this structure, we use scanning tunneling microscopy to extract atomic displacements at the boundaries between regions of Co and Ag. Comparing our measurements to Frenkel-Kontorova model calculations, we show how stress due to lattice mismatch contributes to the formation of the alloy droplet structure. In particular, we quantitatively evaluate how competing strain and chemical energy contributions determine surface structure.

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