Shear displacement of the K(110) surface
- 20 April 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (16) , 2488-2491
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.2488
Abstract
A low-energy electron diffraction analysis of the clean K(110) surface has been performed at 25 K, providing a quantitative structural determination of a clean alkali-metal surface. The K(110) surface exhibits a novel surface phase consisting of a lateral shear displacement between the first two surface planes while preserving their two-dimensional periodicity. The atomistic description of this surface structure is related to that of the bulk martensitic phase transitions of the alkali metals.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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