Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-08-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.84.245443
We studied by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy the strain-related structural transition from a pseudomorphic monolayer (ML) to a striped incommensurate phase in an Ag thin film grown on Pt(111). We exploited the surfactant properties of Bi to grow ordered Pt(111)-xMLAg-Bi trilayers with 0 < x < 5 ML, and monitored the dispersion of the Bi-derived interface states to probe the structure of the underlying Ag film. We find that their symmetry changes from threefold to sixfold and back to threefold in the Ag coverage range studied. Together with previous scanning tunneling microscopy and photoelectron diffraction data, these results provide a consistent microscopic description of the coverage-dependent structural transition.
Brune Harald
Crepaldi Alberto
Frantzeskakis Emmanouil
Grioni Marco
Kern Klaus
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