Spontaneous Formation of Stress Domains on Crystal Surfaces
- 24 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (17), 1973-1976
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.1973
Abstract
It is proposed that surfaces of crystals which reconstruct with broken orientational symmetry and exhibit an anisotropic intrinsic stress tensor are unstable to the formation of elastic-stress domains. Thus the ground state of such a surface is not uniform, contrary to previous expectations. Evidence of this for the Si(001) surface is discussed.Keywords
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