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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 6(102), 2009

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.066102

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New Structural Model for theSi(331)−(12×1)Surface Reconstruction

Journal article published in 2009 by Corsin Battaglia, Katalin Gaál-Nagy, Claude Monney ORCID, Clément Didiot, Eike Fabian Schwier ORCID, Michael Gunnar Garnier, Giovanni Onida, Philipp Aebi
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Abstract

A new structural model for the Si(331)-(12x1) surface reconstruction is proposed. Based on scanning tunneling microscopy images of unprecedented resolution, low-energy electron diffraction data, and first-principles total-energy calculations, we demonstrate that the reconstructed Si(331) surface shares the same elementary building blocks as the Si(110)-(16x2) surface, establishing the pentamer as a universal building block for complex silicon surface reconstructions.