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Scanning tunneling microscopy study of thermal-diffusion-assisted self-organization on a tungsten crystal surface

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The initial stage of faceting on the tungsten (110) vicinal plane during annealing in conditions close to thermodynamic equilibrium or favoring thermal-diffusion-assisted mass transport is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy. In the first case, the initial nanofacets (the traces left after electrochemical polishing) arrayed at a repeat frequency q=(3–4)·105 cm−1 merge to form microsteps with clearly pronounced faceting. In the second, the nanofacet pattern is overlaid by a wavelike, sinusoidally corrugated structure. The corrugation frequency is in a good agreement with the theoretical estimate obtained within the surface mass-transport model.

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  1. Ryazan State Academy of Radio Engineering, 391000, Ryazan, Russia

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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 968–971 (June 1997)

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Vitukhin, V.Y., Zakurdaev, I.V. Scanning tunneling microscopy study of thermal-diffusion-assisted self-organization on a tungsten crystal surface. Phys. Solid State 39, 868–871 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1129993

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