Nanoscale periodicity in stripe-forming systems at high temperature: Au/W(110).
2008
We observe using low-energy electron microscopy the self-assembly of monolayer-thick stripes of Au on W( 110) near the transition temperature between stripes and the nonpatterned (homogeneous) phase. We demonstrate that the amplitude of this Au-stripe phase decreases with increasing temperature and vanishes at the order-disorder transition (ODT). The wavelength varies much more slowly with temperature and coverage than theories of stress-domain patterns with sharp boundaries would predict, and maintains a finite value of about 100 nm at the ODT. We argue that such nanometer-scale stripes should often appear near the ODT.
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