Abstract
By using scanning tunneling microscopy and reflection high-energy electron diffraction it is demonstrated that self-organized ordered Si structures develop during submonolayer Si deposition on vicinal GaAs(001) surfaces, provided the preferred adsorption sites in the trenches of the $(2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4)$ reconstruction are filled with Ga. The evolution of different reconstructions with increasing Si coverages is accompanied by step bunching and de-bunching processes. This unexpected behavior is explained by the interaction between reconstructions and steps from a thermodynamic equilibrium view. For particular coverages the complex process leads to a separation of different surface phases and Si coverages on terraces and in step regions.
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