Stoneham, AM;
(1977)
Elastic interactions between surface adatoms and between surface clusters.
Solid State Communications
, 24
(6)
425 - 428.
10.1016/0038-1098(77)91309-6.
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Abstract
One major term is omitted in most conventional treatments of interactions between surface adatoms or groups of adatoms. This is the elastic interaction, in which adatoms interact through mutual distortion of the substrate. The indirect elastic interaction explains a range of observed surface phenomena in a consistent quantitative way. These phenomena include static and dynamic effects ranging from ordered structures to correlated motions of adatom clusters. It is likely also that substrate distortion is important in clean surface reconstruction. The elastic interaction is typically comparable with or larger than the indirect electronic interactions usually presumed. It follows that detailed calculations which ignore the substrate distortions produced will be of limited value only.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Elastic interactions between surface adatoms and between surface clusters |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0038-1098(77)91309-6 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(77)91309-6 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text made available to UCL Discovery by kind permission of Elsevier B.V., 2012 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/59751 |
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