Reconstruction of the Pt(111) surface: X-ray-scattering measurements
- 15 December 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 48 (24) , 18119-18139
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.48.18119
Abstract
The structure and phase behavior of the clean Pt(111) surface has been studied between 300 K and 0.92 via x-ray scattering. The surface is unreconstructed at low temperatures (T<0.65). For temperatures greater than =0.65, we find that the top layer undergoes a continuous commensurate-incommensurate transformation into a translationally and orientationally disordered discommensuration-fluid phase, which is isotropically compressed relative to the bulk (111) planes. A disordered arrangement of discommensurations separates regions of ideal face-centered-cubic ABC stacking from regions of faulted ABA stacking. As the temperature is increased, the compression of the surface layer increases and the incommensurability (δ) follows a power-law versus reduced temperature with an exponent equal to 1/3. For temperatures increasing above 0.75, sixfold orientational ordering of the discommensurations develops and increases.
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