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SYOM: Symposium One-dimensional Metals: Reality or Fiction
SYOM 2: Posters: One-Dimensional Metals: Reality or Fiction (jointly organized by DS, HL, O, TT)
SYOM 2.5: Poster
Thursday, April 3, 2014, 16:00–19:00, P1
Pb nanowires on Si(557) — •Frederic Timmer1, Sebastian Gevers1, Thomas Weisemöller1, Christoph Tegenkamp2, and Joachim Wollschläger1 — 1Fachbereich Physik, Universität Osnabrück, Barbarastr. 7, 49076 Osnabrück — 2Institut für Festkörperphysik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstr. 2, 30167 Hannover
The restructuring of the Si(557) surface during formation of Pb nanowires has been investigated in-situ by surface x-ray diffraction (SXRD) studies which were performed at the beamline ID03 of ESRF. For this purpose, Pb has been deposited on the bare Si(557) - (3×1) at room temperature until 3D Pb islands were grown on the initial Pb wetting layer. The formation of Pb islands was monitored by the appearance of 3D Pb Bragg peaks.
Thereafter, Pb was carefully desorbed by annealing to 600K. This process was controlled by recording corresponding 3D Pb Bragg peaks directly in-situ by SXRD. Desorption of Pb has been stopped when the Pb islands have vanished and the Pb wetting layer is transformed into a (√3×√3) superstructure on the nano-(111) terraces of the Si(557) surfaces. Reciprocal space mappings were recorded in the [7,7,10] direction, i.e. perpendicular to the atomic steps, clearly indicating a strong refacetting of the initial (557) orientation. It turns out that the restructured Si(557) surface is indeed stabilized by the (√3×√3) Pb overlayer on the Si(111) terraces.