Crystalline Structure and Vacancy Ordering across a Surface Phase Transition in Sn/Cu(001).

J Phys Chem B

Departamento de Fı́sica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , 28049, Madrid, Spain.

Published: January 2018

We report a surface X-ray diffraction study of the crystalline structure changes and critical behavior across the (3√2 × √2)R45° → (√2 × √2)R45° surface phase transition at 360 K for 0.5 monolayers of Sn on Cu(100). The phase transition is of the order-disorder type and is due to the disordering of the Cu atomic vacancies present in the low temperature phase. Two different atomic sites for Sn atoms, characterized by two different heights, are maintained across the surface phase transition.

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