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Abstract

We have carried out adsorption and residual thermal desorption experiments of Indium on Si (1 1 1) 7 × 7 reconstructed surface, in the submonolayer regime, in Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) using in situ probes such as Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) and Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED). The coverage information from AES and the surface symmetry from LEED is used to draw a 2D phase diagram which characterizes each observed superstructural phases. The different superstructural phases observed are Si(1 1 1)7 × 7–In, Si(1 1 1)√3 × √3R30°–In, Si(1 1 1)4 × 1–In, Si(1 1 1)2√3 × 2√3R30°–In and Si(1 1 1)√7 × √3–In in characteristic temperature and coverage regime. In addition to the 1/3 ML, √3 × √3-In phase, we observe two additional √3 × √3-In phases at around 0.6 and 1 ML. Our careful residual thermal desorption studies yields the Si(1 1 1)2√3 × 2√3R30°–In phase which has infrequently appeared in the literature. We probe theoretically the structure of this phase according to the LEED structure and coverage measured by AES, assuming that the model for Si(1 1 1)2√3 × 2√3R30°–In is very proximal to the well established Si(1 1 1)2√3 × 2√3R30°–Sn phase, using ab initio calculation based on pseudopotentials and Density Functional Theory (DFT) to simulate an STM image of the system. Calculations show the differences in the atomic position and charge distribution in the Si(1 1 1)2√3 × 2√3R30°–In case.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to M/s Elsevier B.V.
Subjects:	Chemistry Materials Science Physics
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Ms Neetu Chandra
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2012 09:01
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2012 09:01
URI:	http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/500

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