Published April 6, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Reconstruction of the Pt(111) surface

  • 1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (United States)
  • 2. Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6057 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000 (United States)

Description

The structure of the clean Pt(111) surface has been studied between 300 K and 0.92Tm (Tm=2045 K) via x-ray scattering. The surface is unreconstructed for temperatures less than 0.65Tm, but reconstructs at higher temperatures to form a layer isotropically compressed and incommensurate with the underlying bulk (111) planes. A disordered arrangement of discommensurations separates regions with ideal fcc stacking from regions with faulted stacking. With increasing temperature, both the compression of the surface layer and the orientational order of the discommensurations increase

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
p. 2192-2195.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO