Published August 1999 | Version v1
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Short-Range Order and Phase Stability of Surface Alloys: PdAu on Ru(0001)

  • 1. Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551-0969 (United States)

Description

Structural and thermodynamic properties of thermally equilibrated Pd-Au/Ru(0001) surface alloys are studied within the framework of lattice models based upon first-principles total energy calculations and scanning-tunneling-microscopy imaging of atomic structure. Pd-rich alloys form pseudomorphic solid-solution phases with pronounced chemical short-range order (SRO), consistent with the prediction of a low-temperature order-disorder transition to a (√(3)x√(3) )-R30 degree ground state structure. Calculated and measured SRO parameters are found to be in excellent agreement and are quantitatively described by a lattice-model Hamiltonian dominated by short-ranged interactions. copyright 1999 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 1379-1382
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO