A pseudomorphic monolayer of Au on Ir(001) is easily preparable and has a long lifetime in ultrahigh vacuum. Its geometrical and electronic structure was investigated by ab initio calculations within density functional theory. For a wide range of energies (below 100 eV) and angles of incidence of spin-polarized primary electrons we measured and calculated the intensity and spin asymmetry of the...

Optical and photoelectric properties of metamorphic InAs/InGaAs and conventional pseudomorphic InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) structures were studied. We used two different electrical contact configurations that allowed us to have the current flow (i) only through QDs and embedding layers and (ii) through all the structure, including the GaAs substrate (wafer). Different optical transitions between...

The growth of one and two atomic layers of iron on a W(110) substrate was followed by low-energy electron microscopy. The near-surface structural properties of the perfectly flat pseudomorphic films were studied by quantitative low-energy electron diffraction analysis from areas of uniform thickness as well as by the density functional theory. A strong relaxation of the outermost atomic layers ...

The narrow gap semiconductor alloys SnxGe1−x and SnxSi1−x offer the possibility for engineering tunable direct energy gap Group IV semiconductor materials. For pseudomorphic SnxGe1−x alloys grown on Ge (001) by molecular beam epitaxy, an indirect-to-direct bandgap transition with increasing Sn composition is observed, and the effects of misfit on the bandgap analyzed in terms of a deformation p...

Stability of underpotentially deposited (upd) Ag layers on Au(111) surface was investigated by surface X-ray scattering (SXS). While the complete pseudomorphic Ag bilayer on Au(111) surface obtained by upd at 10 mV (vs. Ag/Ag) was maintained its structure even after the circuit was disconnected and the surface was exposed to ambient atmosphere, the pseudomorphic Ag monolayer obtained by upd at ...

the serpentinization of the harzburgitic mantle section of the bou azzer neoproterozoic ophiolite is studied by field mapping, structural observations, optical micrography, sem and x-ray diffractometry, and relationships with co, ni, cr and sulphides minerals are discussed. serpentinization occurred in two major steps with, i) intra-oceanic pseudomorphic serpentinization materialized by the iso...

Atomic hydrogen adsorption energies on bimetallic overlayer systems have been determined by periodic density functional theory calculations within the generalized gradient approximation. On the pseudomorphic Pd/Cu(111) surface, both the substrate interaction and the lattice compression of the Pd overlayer lead to smaller hydrogen binding energies. For pseudomorphic Cu/Pd(111), on the hand, the ...

A synthesis route to a hierarchically meso-/microporous BEA zeolite has been developed with a cyclic diammonium as a structure-directing agent (SDA), which leads to pseudomorphic crystallization of the zeolite by suppressing the mobility of silicates during crystallization.

Using examples from SiGe solid solutions grown onto (001)Si substrates from metallic solutions (liquid phase epitaxy) we discuss the different mechanisms by which misfitting systems can relax the strain caused by pseudomorphic growth. We treat elastic, plastic and diffusive relaxation and their interdependence. As an extension we discuss additional relaxation mechanisms, though possibly not ver...