Should all surfaces be reconstructed?
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 70 (5), 627-630
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.70.627
Abstract
The driving force for surface reconstruction is shown to be given by the (usually nonzero) difference between the surface energy and stress, leading to a ground state characterized by an isotropic stress tensor with vanishing shear components. The analytic results, illustrated by atomistic simulations of the missing row reconstruction of the Au(110) surface, permit likely reconstructions to be identified based on the stress and energy in the unreconstructed surface.Keywords
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