Hm. Tutuncu et al., PHONON MODES FOR THE SYMMETRICAL AND ASYMMETRIC DIMER MODELS OF THE SI(001)(2X1) SURFACE, Surface science, 377(1-3), 1997, pp. 335-338
We present a study of the phonon modes for the symmetric and asymmetri
c dimer models of the Si(001)(2 x 1) surface calculated within the adi
abatic bond-charge model. The structural models used in this work were
obtained from ab initio pseudopotential total energy calculations, wh
ich favour the asymmetric dimer configuration, in line with recent the
oretical consensus.