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CHATTERJEE K, CHANG TC, CHANG SH, HONG IPO, HWANG IS. GROWTH OF Si ATOMIC WIRES ON Pb-MEDIATED Si(111)7 × 7 SUBSTRATE. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE 2011. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219581x11007685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
The growth of the self-assembled Si atomic wires on Pb -covered Si (111) 7 × 7 substrate has been studied using homemade scanning tunneling microscope (STM) at room temperature (RT). These surfactant-mediated epitaxially grown Si atomic wires ( SiAWs ) are quite stable at RT. It is interesting that they always appear in pairs having a distance of ~9 Å in between them. They have only three special growth directions, parallel to the three possible crystal directions of the Si (111) substrate underneath. The SiAW can be imaged down to few mV bias voltages, and the voltage current characteristic investigated with scanning tunneling spectroscopy reveals metallic electronic structure of this special kind of SiAW .
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Affiliation(s)
- K. CHATTERJEE
- Department of Physics and Techno Physics, Vidhyasagar University, Midnapore, India
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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Surfactants in Semiconductor Heteroepitaxy: Thermodynamics and/or Kinetics? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0816-7_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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