SURFACE-STRUCTURE OF A BINARY ALLOY IN DIFFERENT STATES OF ORDER - THE TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN THE AMORPHOUS AND THE CRYSTALLINE PHASE

Authors
SCHAUB TM BURGLER DE GUNTHERODT HJ
Citation
Tm. Schaub et al., SURFACE-STRUCTURE OF A BINARY ALLOY IN DIFFERENT STATES OF ORDER - THE TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN THE AMORPHOUS AND THE CRYSTALLINE PHASE, Europhysics letters, 36(8), 1996, pp. 601-606
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Europhysics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
02955075
Volume
36
Issue
8
Year of publication
1996
Pages
601 - 606
Database
ISI
SICI code
0295-5075(1996)36:8<601:SOABAI>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Amorphous Pd81Si19 is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy before and after crystallization, and after additional laser-quenching. Dista nces between structural units on the amorphous surface are comparable to lattice spacings on the crystallized sample indicating partial pres ervation of the local structure during the phase transformation. After laser-quenching the crystallized sample, the surface structure is sim ilar to that of the initial amorphous state proving on the nm scale th e successful transformation of the surface layers back into the amorph ous state.