Abstract
The phase diagram of adsorbate-induced row-type alignments, such as missing-row reconstructions induced by adsorbate atoms on the FCC(110) surface, is calculated by the Blume–Emmery–Griffiths (BEG) model. In the model, we introduce adatom–adatom and dipole–dipole interactions between nearest-neighbor (NN) and next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) rows. The calculation of the temperature versus adatom chemical potential phase diagram is performed using mean-field approximation. It is indicated that when NN and NNN interactions are competitive, there appear either dipole or coverage modulated (incommensurate) phases at high temperatures for a wide regime of the interactions.
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