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Quasi one-dimensional Ag nanostructures on Si(331)–(12 × 1)

Mariotti, Nicolas ; Didiot, Clément ; Schwier, Eike Fabian ; Monney, Claude ; Battaglia, Corsin ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Surface Science, 2015, vol. 639, p. 39-42

We report on the deposition of sub-monolayer Ag on the Si(331)–(12 × 1) surface. The growth of one-dimensional Ag nanostructures is observed by means of low- temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction. We find that the deposited Ag is organized in nanostructures consistently taking “sawtooth” shapes. While the structures are not perfectly organized,...

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Scanning tunneling microscopy at multiple voltage biases of stable “ring-like” Ag clusters on Si(111)–(7 × 7)

Mariotti, Nicolas ; Didiot, Clément ; Schwier, Eike Fabian ; Monney, Claude ; Perret-Aebi, Laure-Emmanuelle ; Battaglia, Corsin ; Garnier, M.G. ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Surface Science, 2012, vol. 606, no. 23-24, p. 1755-1759

Since more than twenty years it is known that deposition of Ag onto Si(111)–(7 × 7) leads under certain conditions to the formation of so-called “ring-like” clusters, that are particularly stable among small clusters. In order to resolve their still unknown atomic structure, we performed voltage dependent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements providing interesting...

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Valence band structure of the Si(331)-(12 × 1) surface reconstruction

Battaglia, Corsin ; Schwier, Eike Fabian ; Monney, Claude ; Didiot, Clément ; Mariotti, Nicolas ; Gaál-Nagy, Katalin ; Onida, Giovanni ; Garnier, Michael Gunnar ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2011, vol. 23, no. 13, p. 135003

Using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy we investigate the electronic valence band structure of the Si(331)-(12 × 1) surface reconstruction for which we recently proposed a structural model containing silicon pentamers as elementary structural building blocks. We find that this surface, reported to be metallic in a previous study, shows a clear band gap at the Fermi energy, indicating...