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Publication
Physical Review B
Paper
Missing dimers and strain relief in Ge films on Si(100)
Abstract
The 2×8 reconstruction of Ge films of Si(100) is shown to arise from ordered arrays of rebonded missing dimers (RMD s). Such a reconstruction was suggested by Pandey for Si(100). However, because of their large tensile stress, RMD s are much more energetically favorable in epitaxially compressed Ge films. For Si(100), RMD s have a very small energy, and their presence may account for the puzzling discrepancy between theory and experiment for the stress anisotropy. © 1992 The American Physical Society.