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Growth of NiO on Ag(001): Atomic environment, strain, and interface relaxations studied by polarization dependent extended X-ray absorption fine structure (Articolo in rivista)

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E. Groppo, C. Prestipino, C. Lamberti, P. Luches, C. Giovanardi, and F. Boscherini (2003)
Growth of NiO on Ag(001): Atomic environment, strain, and interface relaxations studied by polarization dependent extended X-ray absorption fine structure
in The journal of physical chemistry. B; ACS, American chemical society, Washington, DC (Stati Uniti d'America)
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Department of Inorganic, Physical and Materials Chemistry, University of Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, I-10125 Torino Italy; also with INFM U.d.R. di Torino INFM- National Center on nanoStructures and bioSystem at Surfaces (S3) and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via G. Campi 213/a, 41100 Modena, Italy INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, Viale C. Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127 Bologna, Italy (literal)

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Growth of NiO on Ag(001): Atomic environment, strain, and interface relaxations studied by polarization dependent extended X-ray absorption fine structure (literal)

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This paper reports a structural study of 3 and 10 monolayer (ML) thick NiO films grown on Ag(001). Polarization-dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the Ni K edge allowed us to obtain an accurate description of the local atomic environment of the Ni atoms up to the seventh coordination shell, including the determination of the in-plane and out-of-plane strains for the NiO films (determined with an accuracy better than 1%, resulting from the determination of Ni-O bond distances with a statistical error lower than 0.01 Angstrom). Multishell multiple scattering calculations have been used to fit the data. Within the experimental errors, the 3 ML film has both in and out-of-plane Ni-O distances compatible with those expected in the case of perfect pseudomorphism on Ag(001). A rough film morphology, possibly including also the presence of NiO islands, is also suggested by the optimized coordination numbers. Conversely the 10 ML film is partially relaxed without significant deviation from ideal bidimensional film. The present EXAFS study allows us to rule out any significant atomic interdiffusion process between the substrate and the NiO film. Comparison with previous literature data allows us to make the hypothesis of a two step growth mechanism for NiO films on Ag(001). The NiO-Ag(001) interface distance determined in this EXAFS study (d(interface) = 2.36 +/- 0.05 Angstrom) is in remarkable agreement with theoretical calculations (d(interface) = 2.38 Angstrom). (literal)

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