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Surface Studies of Silicon with a High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

J.M. Gibson
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
M.L. McDonald
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
F.C. Unterwald
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
H.-J. Gossmann
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
J.C. Bean
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
R.T. Tung
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
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Abstract

Using a specially modified ultra-high vacuum, ultra-high resolution transmission electron microscope, in-situ cleaned Si surfaces have been examined with near atomic resolution. By annealing the edges of a <110> thin Si specimen in-situ, it is found that low energy surfaces form. A surprising observation is that the {113} surface is stable and reconstructed by dimerization to a very low dangling bond density. It is also found that a 7×7 surface peridoicity can be preserved at a buried Si < 111 > / amorphous Si interface.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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