Structural development and energy dissipation in simulated silicon apices

Jarvis, Samuel Paul and Kantorovich, Lev and Moriarty, Philip (2013) Structural development and energy dissipation in simulated silicon apices. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 4. pp. 941-948. ISSN 2190-4286

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Abstract

In this paper we examine the stability of silicon tip apices by using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We find that some tip structures - modelled as small, simple clusters - show variations in stability during manipulation dependent on their orientation with respect to the sample surface. Moreover, we observe that unstable structures can be revealed by a characteristic hysteretic behaviour present in the F(z) curves that were calculated with DFT, which corresponds to a tip-induced dissipation of hundreds of millielectronvolts resulting from reversible structural deformations. Additionally, in order to model the structural evolution of the tip apex within a low temperature NC-AFM experiment, we simulated a repeated tip–surface indentation until the tip structure converged to a stable termination and the characteristic hysteretic behaviour was no longer observed. Our calculations suggest that varying just a single rotational degree of freedom can have as measurable an impact on the tip–surface interaction as a completely different tip structure.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
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Subjects:
?? apex structureatomic force microscopydftdissipationhysteresislicensee beilstein-institut nc-afmsilicon spectroscopytip structuregeneral materials scienceelectrical and electronic engineeringgeneral physics and astronomymaterials science(all)physics and as ??
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83474
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Deposited On:
06 Dec 2016 09:18
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Published
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