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Science 17 October 1986:
Vol. 234. no. 4774, pp. 310 - 316
DOI: 10.1126/science.234.4774.310
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Atomic Arrangements at Metal Surfaces

J. R. NOONAN 1 and H. L. DAVIS 1

1 Research scientist in the Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box X, Oak Ridge, TN 37831.

The termination of a solid induces changes in the locations of the outermost atoms of the solid. The changes can be minor or as dramatic as the rearrangement of the atoms into a different crystallographic group. Surface crystallography studies have determined that all surfaces are altered by forces induced at the solid-vacuum interface. At the least, the outermost atomic layers are displaced away from positions that they would have had in the bulk environment. Results from experimental and theoretical investigations for the Al(110) surface are discussed to illustrate present understanding of the surface atomic displacements. Some effects that the truncation- induced forces have on the surfaces of binary metal alloys are also discussed.


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