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A three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the atomic structure of the (100) surface of a 1T-TiSe2 layered dichalcogenide crystal has been performed from X-ray photoelectron and Auger electron diffraction data. The diffraction patterns of the emission of Auger electrons of Se(LMM) selenium and photoelectrons of Ti2p titanium have been considered as holographic diagrams. Being processed with the scattering pattern extraction algorithm using the maximum entropy method (SPEA-MEM), they provide individual 3D images of the nearest environment of selenium and titanium atoms in the TiSe2 lattice. Using reconstructed 3D images, the positions of 128 atoms in the 2 × 2 × 1.5-nm region of the surface layer of TiSe2 have been determined. The structure of the surface has a 1T polytype. Interatomic distances in the layer and van der Waals gap are larger than the respective parameters in the bulk of the crystal. It is assumed that titanium layers in two Se-Ti-Se upper surface structural units are displaced along the [001] axis. The structure of the surface layer can be described by a unit cell of the P3 space group with the parameters a = 3.85 Å and c = 14.4 Å.
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Original Russian Text © I.I. Ogorodnikov, A.S. Vorokh, A.N. Titov, M.V. Kuznetsov, 2012, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 95, No. 7, pp. 414–422.
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Ogorodnikov, I.I., Vorokh, A.S., Titov, A.N. et al. Atomic structure of a 1T-TiSe2 surface layer from photoelectron and Auger electron holography data. Jetp Lett. 95, 372–379 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364012070065
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