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Ionic Films on Vicinal Metal Surfaces: Enhanced Binding due to Charge Modulation

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: NaCl films on Cu(311) exhibit a remarkably strong and localized binding between adlayer and substrate. The binding sites of the ions in the NaCl film with respect to the Cu surface are determined from atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscopy images. A new model is proposed in which the binding mechanism is controlled by the charge modulation of a regularly stepped surface due to the Smoluchowski effect. This model can be extended to explain the growth of ionic adlayers on regularly stepped and kinked metal surfaces in general.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.252

Authors: Jascha Repp, Stefan Fölsch, Gerhard Meyer, Karl-Heinz Rieder

Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics

Language: English

Topic: Surface and Thin Film Phenomena

Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: European Commission, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

OpenAlex ID: W2000720799

FWCI: 3.39

Cites: 13

Cited by: 64

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