DAI, XIAN-QI; JU, WEI-WEI; XIE, M. H.; TONG, S. Y. - In: Surface Review and Letters (SRL) 12 (2005) 04, pp. 483-487
Using ab initio total energy calculations, we have studied the formation of indium (In) wires on flat and stepped Si(100)-(2×1) surfaces at low coverage. On flat Si(100), two possible orientations of In wires are examined: (i) the wire is perpendicular to the underlying Si dimer rows, and (ii)...