Profile imaging of reconstructed polar and non-polar surfaces of ZnO |
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Authors: | Yong Ding |
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Institution: | School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, United States |
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Abstract: | The atomic scale surface structures of ZnO non-polar as well as and ±(0 0 0 1) polar surfaces have been directly imaged by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The observations were made on clean surfaces created by irradiating a single ZnO nanobelt using 400 keV electron beam in TEM, under which ZnO dots were grown epitaxially and in situ on the surface of the nanobelt. A technique is demonstrated for directly distinguishing the surface polarity of the ±(0 0 0 1) polar surfaces. For the non-polar surface, HRTEM images and simulation results indicate that the Zn ions in the first and second layer suffer from inward and outward relaxation, respectively; the oxygen ions in the first and second layer prefer shifting to vicinal Zn ions to shorten the bonding distance. For the oxygen-terminated polar surface, the oxygen ions at the outmost top layer were directly imaged. a × 2 reconstruction has also been observed at the surface, and its atomic structure has been proposed based on image simulation. Oxygen-terminated polar surface is flat and shows no detectable reconstruction. For the Zn-terminated (0 0 0 1) polar surface, HRTEM may indicate the existence of Zn vacancies and a possibly c-axis, random outward displacement of the top Zn ions. Our data tend to support the mechanism of removal of surface atoms for maintaining the stability of (0 0 0 1) polar surfaces. |
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Keywords: | Surface structure High-resolution transmission electron microscopy Profile image Zinc oxide Polar surface |
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