Structure determination of an adsorbate-induced multilayer reconstruction: (1×2)-H/Ni(110)

Kleinle, Gerald and Penka, Volker and Behm, Rolf Jürgen and Ertl, Gerhard and Moritz, Wolfgang (1987): Structure determination of an adsorbate-induced multilayer reconstruction: (1×2)-H/Ni(110). In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 58, No. 2: pp. 148-151

Abstract

The reconstructed (1×2) structure formed by saturation of a Ni(110) surface with adsorbed H atoms at T<180 K was investigated by LEED. Excellent agreement between experimental and calculated I-V spectra for eleven nonequivalent beams was obtained for a model in which parallel rows of Ni atoms in the topmost layer are laterally shifted by 0.3 Å (‘‘row pairing’’) and which exhibits periodic vertical displacements (‘‘buckling’’) of the atoms in the second layer.

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