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Publication
Physical Review B
Paper
Oxygen on Cu(100) surface structure studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and by low-energy-electron-diffraction multiple-scattering calculations
Abstract
A scanning-tunneling-microscopy study for a surface formed by the chemisorption of oxygen on Cu(100) and displaying a (22 × 2) R45°low-energy-electron-diffraction (LEED) pattern shows the expected rotationally related domains but no unambiguous evidence for coexisting regions of c(2×2) symmetry. There is a clear pairing of atomic rows, but a low corrugation (0.2). These features are consistent with results from a new LEED multiple-scattering analysis applied to six diffracted beams for normal incidence. The missing-row model recently proposed [Zeng et al., Surf. Sci. 208, L7 (1989)] is extended to include a 0.30- lateral relaxation for top-layer copper atoms adjacent to the missing rows, and small (around 0.10-) vertical relaxations in both the first and second copper layers. These features yield the best correspondence between experimental and calculated LEED intensities yet reached for this surface structure. © 1990 The American Physical Society.