Surface cleaning procedures for seventy four of the elements having vapor pressures below
1.3× 10− 7 Pa at room temperature have been reviewed and evaluated. The emphasis was …

The work function (WF) of a metal can be defined as the minimum energy required to extract
one electron from a metal. Obviously the WF is one of the fundamental electronic properties …

The closely related geometric and electronic structure of the Ge (001) surface have been
investigated with the tunneling microscope. An asymmetric dimer reconstruction is observed …

We show that an external pinning potential located along a single row will at all
temperatures localize the interface in a one-dimensional solid-on-solid model unless the …

Within the last two decades, fundamental research on solid surfaces has been mainly
concerned with polycrystalline films and low index planes of single crystals, their physical …

Scanning-tunneling microscopy observation of atomic structures reveals strongly anisotropic
rates for etching of Si (111) surfaces in weakly alkaline HF solutions and negligible etch …

Clean silicon surfaces inclined at small angles to (111),(100) and (110) planes were
investigated by LEED. Surfaces oriented at low angles to the (111) plane contain steps with …

A new class of structure models for the (113) and (115) orientations of Si and Ge is
proposed. They are based on dimer and adatom formation as the main building blocks for …

Application of the morphologic Periodic Bond Chain method to diamond-like crystal
structures learns that {001} faces should be K or S type, ie they will be atomically rough. This …

We have used reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) to determine the step
structure on Ge and GaAs surfaces. The results show the key role that inequivalent steps on …