Abstract
A surface/gas-phase reaction on Ti(110) was visualized in situ by scanning tunneling microscopy. When a vacuum annealed surface heated at 800 K was exposed to an ambient of , hill-like structures were randomly nucleated over terraces. Then they were transformed into new terraces, with added rows comprising double strands. We proposed a reoxidation scheme to interpret the dynamics; partially reduced ions , which had been accumulated at interstitial positions in the vacuum annealed crystal, were oxidized at the surface to form the hills, added rows, and new terraces.
- Received 21 July 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.791
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