Observation of Surface-Melting-Induced Faceting
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 21 (1) , 43-48
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/21/1/008
Abstract
Medium-energy-ion scattering measurements on vicinal surfaces in the [10] zone around Pb(111), at a temperature close to the bulk melting point, demonstrate a new phenomenon, surface-melting-induced faceting. A range is identified of surface orientations θd < θ < θm which are unstable at high temperatures. These vicinal surfaces spontaneously facet into the dry orientation θd and the melted orientation θm.Keywords
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