CdTe and PbTe nanostructures on the oxidized pentagonal surface of an icosahedral AlPdMn quasicrystal |
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Authors: | J-N Longchamp S Burkardt M Erbudak Y Weisskopf |
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Institution: | Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | By means of congruent evaporation, we have deposited CdTe and PbTe onto the oxidized fivefold-symmetry surface of an icosahedral AlPdMn quasicrystal. This procedure results in the formation of nanocrystals in both cases. While the azimuthal orientations of the crystallites are random, the polar orientations are well defined. The crystalline CdTe and PbTe domains expose their (1 1 1) and (0 0 1) faces, respectively, which are aligned parallel to the pentagonal surface of the quasicrystal. The nanometric size of the domains is not a result of the lattice mismatch between the growing film and the substrate as usually observed in molecular-beam epitaxy, but of the limited size of the oxide domains of the substrate surface. |
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Keywords: | PbTe CdTe Al-Pd-Mn Quasicrystals Interfaces Semiconductors Random orientation |
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