Abstract
We report on the investigation of reconstructed semiconductor surfaces by Raman spectroscopy from dimer vibrations. Localized modes of Te dimers on the (100) surface of the zinc blende II-VI semiconductor BeTe allow the analysis of Te- and Be-rich surface structures, as well as oxidation effects. The Te-rich surface exhibits one dimer-vibration mode at 165 cm(-1), while two modes appear at the Be-rich surface (157 and 188 cm(-1)). The mode assignment as dimer vibrations is underscored by their symmetry properties and by frozen phonon calculations, yielding mode frequencies and eigenvectors. This approach opens up a new field of surface chemistry analysis by dimer-vibration spectroscopy.
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