Determining the energetics of vicinal perovskite oxide surfaces

The energetics of vicinal SrTiO3(001) and DyScO3(110), prototypical perovskite vicinal surfaces, has been studied using topographic atomic force microscopy imaging. The kink formation and strain relaxation energies are extracted from a statistical analysis of the step meandering. Both perovskite sur...

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Main Authors: Werner A. Wessels, Tjeerd R. J. Bollmann, Gertjan Koster, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, Guus Rijnders
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2017-05-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4982886