Step morphologies on small-miscut Si(001) surfaces
- 15 March 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 47 (12), 7598-7601
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.47.7598
Abstract
The morphologies of single height atomic steps were studied on Si(001) samples with a miscut of ∼0°–0.05° using dark-field low-energy electron microscopy. In addition to the previously observed wavy step phase we identify a ‘‘hilly’’ phase at miscut anglesKeywords
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