Dr. Eisner et Tl. Einstein, SIMPLE FORMULA FOR MILLER INDEXES OF PERIODICALLY KINKED AND STEPPED FCC SURFACES, Surface science, 286(1-2), 1993, pp. 559-563
A periodically kinked and stepped surface can be characterized by two
integers for each step and two more integers to translate one step to
its neighbor. In terms of these four integers, we write a simple formu
la for the Miller indices for fcc surfaces vicinal to {100} and to {11
1} planes. These useful formulas are extensions of the work of Van Hov
e and Somorjai [Surf. Sci. 92 (1980) 489].