Tailor-made ultrathin manganese oxide nanostripes: 'magic widths' on Pd(1 1 N) terraces
- Author(s)
- Cesare Franchini, Fanghua Li, Svetlozar L. Surnev, Raimund Podloucky, Francesco Allegretti, Falko P. Netzer
- Abstract
The growth of ultrathin two-dimensional manganese oxide nanostripes on vicinal Pd(1 1 N) surfaces leads to particular stable configurations for certain combinations of oxide stripe and substrate terrace widths. Scanning tunneling microscopy and high-resolution low-energy electron diffraction measurements reveal highly ordered nanostructured surfaces with excellent local and long-range order. Density functional theory calculations provide the physical origin of the stabilization mechanism of 'magic width' stripes in terms of a finite-size effect, caused by the significant relaxations observed at the stripe boundaries.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational Materials Physics, Department of Physical Chemistry
- External organisation(s)
- Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
- Journal
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Volume
- 24
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 0953-8984
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/24/4/042001
- Publication date
- 2012
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 104017 Physical chemistry, 103018 Materials physics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/tailormade-ultrathin-manganese-oxide-nanostripes-magic-widths-on-pd1-1-n-terraces(778bbcf9-30b7-4f8d-aabd-235d1bbd52a5).html