Abstract
Scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction have been used to study the surface in an ultrahigh vacuum. Our results show that this surface can be stabilized by coexisting and FeO(111) phases, with each phase existing in atomically well-ordered islands of mesoscopic dimensions. Furthermore, the islands themselves are arranged to form a superlattice. The formation of this superlattice can be explained in terms of the lattice mismatch between two types of oxygen sublattices.
- Received 7 April 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.1961
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