Defect Structures on Epitaxial Fe3O4(111) Films Full article
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Physical Review B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (up to 2016)
ISSN: 1098-0121 , E-ISSN: 1550-235X |
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Output data | Year: 1999, Volume: 60, Number: 15, Pages: 11062-11069 Pages count : 8 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.11062 | ||||
Tags | OXIDE SURFACES; CATALYSTS | ||||
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1 | Max Planck Society |
Abstract:
Epitaxial Fe3O4(111) films were grown onto a Pt(111) substrate by repeated cycles of iron deposition and subsequent oxidation in 10−6 mbar oxygen. A previous low energy electron diffraction (LEED) intensity analysis revealed the regular Fe3O4(111) surface to expose 14 monolayer Fe atoms over a close-packed oxygen layer underneath. With scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) a hexagonal lattice of protrusions with a 6 Å periodicity is observed. The protrusions are assigned to the topmost layer Fe atoms, which agrees with the dominating Fe3d electron density of states near the Fermi level related to these surface atoms, as revealed by ab initio spin-density-functional theory calculations. The most abundant type of point defects observed by STM are attributed to iron vacancies in the topmost layer, which was confirmed by LEED intensity calculations where different types of vacancy defects have been simulated. For oxidation temperatures around 870 K the regular Fe3O4(111) surface coexists with several different surface structures covering about 5% of the films, which expose 34 ML iron atoms or close-packed iron and oxygen layers, resulting in surface domains that are FeO(111) and Fe3O4(111) in nature. These domains are arranged periodically on the surface and form ordered biphase superstructures. At 1000 K oxidation temperature they vanish and only the regular Fe3O4(111) surface remains.
Cite:
Shaikhutdinov S.K.
, Ritter M.
, Wang X.-G.
, Over H.
, Weiss W.
Defect Structures on Epitaxial Fe3O4(111) Films
Physical Review B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (up to 2016). 1999. V.60. N15. P.11062-11069. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.11062 WOS Scopus РИНЦ
Defect Structures on Epitaxial Fe3O4(111) Films
Physical Review B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (up to 2016). 1999. V.60. N15. P.11062-11069. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.11062 WOS Scopus РИНЦ
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Submitted: | May 26, 1999 |
Published print: | Oct 1, 1999 |
Published online: | Oct 15, 1999 |
Identifiers:
Web of science | WOS:000083427600090 |
Scopus | 2-s2.0-0001163755 |
Elibrary | 13311244 |
Chemical Abstracts | 1999:664292 |
Chemical Abstracts (print) | 132:27122 |
OpenAlex | W1646339107 |