Surface band structure of the reconstructed Ir(001)-[formula omitted] surface

Abstract

It is well known that the atomic structure of the Ir(001)-(5 × 1) surface consists of a quasi-hexagonal topmost layer on top of quadratic substrate layers. In the present work, we investigate how the electronic structure of Ir(001)-(1 × 1) is modified by the (5 × 1) reconstruction. For this purpose, we perform a first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculation for semi-infinite Ir(001)-(1 × 1) and -(5 × 1) surfaces by employing the surface embedded Green’s function technique. It will be shown that surface bands on the (1 × 1) surface are strongly modified upon reconstruction. At the same time, we will demonstrate that one-dimensional (1D) surface bands localized in atomic rows in the [110] direction characterizing the buckled hexagonal layer emerge on the reconstructed surface.