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Revisiting the structure of the p(4x4) surface oxide on Ag(111)

Schnadt, Joachim LU orcid ; Michaelides, Angelos ; Knudsen, Jan ; Vang, Ronnie T. ; Reuter, Karsten ; Lægsgaard, Erik ; Scheffler, Matthias and Besenbacher, Flemming (2006) In Physical Review Letters 96.
Abstract
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density-functional theory are used to reexamine the structure of the renowned p(4×4)-O/Ag(111) surface oxide. The accepted structural model [C. I. Carlisle et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3899 (2000)] is incompatible with the enhanced resolution of the current STM measurements. An "Ag6 model" is proposed that is more stable than its predecessor and accounts for the coexistence of the p(4×4) and a novel c(3×5sqrt(3))rect phase. This coexistence is an indication of the dynamic complexity of the system that until now has not been appreciated.
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  abstract     = {{Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density-functional theory are used to reexamine the structure of the renowned p(4×4)-O/Ag(111) surface oxide. The accepted structural model [C. I. Carlisle et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3899 (2000)] is incompatible with the enhanced resolution of the current STM measurements. An "Ag6 model" is proposed that is more stable than its predecessor and accounts for the coexistence of the p(4×4) and a novel c(3×5sqrt(3))rect phase. This coexistence is an indication of the dynamic complexity of the system that until now has not been appreciated.}},
  author       = {{Schnadt, Joachim and Michaelides, Angelos and Knudsen, Jan and Vang, Ronnie T. and Reuter, Karsten and Lægsgaard, Erik and Scheffler, Matthias and Besenbacher, Flemming}},
  issn         = {{1079-7114}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Revisiting the structure of the p(4x4) surface oxide on Ag(111)}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.146101}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.146101}},
  volume       = {{96}},
  year         = {{2006}},
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