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- Österlund, Lars, 1967-, et al.
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Quantitative determination of adsorbate-adsorbate interactions
- 1999
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In: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 83:23, s. 4812-4815
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A new concept called configuration distribution analysis is introduced to extract quantitative information on adsorbate-adsorbate interactions from high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy data. From atom-resolved nitrogen island configurations on an Fe(100) surface we show that the propensity to form small, compact c(2 X 2) nitrogen islands is due to a nearest neighbor repulsion and next-nearest neighbor attraction. We demonstrate the importance of including many-body terms and elastic interactions to account for the detailed description of the island distribution.
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