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The (001) Surface of Fe3O4 Grown Epitaxially on MgO and Characterized by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

J. M. Gaines ,
J. T. Kohlhepp ,
J.T.W.M. van Eemeren ,
R.J.G. Elfrink ,
F. Roozeboom  and
W.J.M. de Jonge
J. M. Gaines
Affiliation:
Philips Research Laboratories, Professor Holstlaan 4, 5656 JA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
J. T. Kohlhepp
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
J.T.W.M. van Eemeren
Affiliation:
Philips Research Laboratories, Professor Holstlaan 4, 5656 JA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
R.J.G. Elfrink
Affiliation:
Philips Research Laboratories, Professor Holstlaan 4, 5656 JA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
F. Roozeboom
Affiliation:
Philips Research Laboratories, Professor Holstlaan 4, 5656 JA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
W.J.M. de Jonge
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Spinel Fe3O4 contains two sites for iron: tetrahedrally coordinated sites containing Fe3+ ions and octahedrally coordinated sites containing a mixture of Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions. Scanning tunneling microscopy performed on the (001) surface of Fe3O4, grown epitaxially on MgO, shows localized charge density at the tetrahedral sites. The images show that the p(1×1) surface reconstruction (also observed during molecular beam epitaxy of Fe3O4) is produced by a displacement of the two tetrahedrally coordinated Fe ions on the unit cell surface from their bulk positions toward each other. The octahedral Fe ions are imaged as extended rows of charge density, with no resolution of atom-size features along the rows. This slight corrugation of electron charge density along the octahedral sites is consistent with the original conjectures explaining the high electrical conductivity in bulk Fe3O4: electrons move by hopping between the Fe3+ and Fe2+ atoms along the octahedral rows of Fe ions.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 474: Symposium L – Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films III , 1997 , 191
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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