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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 87, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.075310
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Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/G007837/1]
- Leverhulme Trust [F00/114 BI, ECF/2010/0380]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers [22221006, 24360016, 24651116, 22760028]
- EPSRC [EP/G007837/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G007837/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22760028, 22221006, 24651116] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The Ag:Si(111)-(root 3 x root 3)R30 degrees surface structure has attracted considerable debate concerning interpretation of scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and noncontact atomic force microscope (NC-AFM) images. In particular, the accepted interpretation of atomic resolution images in NC-AFM has been questioned by theoretical and STM studies. In this paper, we use combined NC-AFM and STM to conclusively show that the inequivalent trimer (IET) configuration best describes the surface ground state. Thermal-averaging effects result in a honeycomb-chained-trimer (HCT) appearance at room temperature, in contrast to studies suggesting that the IET configuration remains stable at higher temperatures [Zhang, Gustafsson, and Johansson, Phys. Rev. B 74, 201304(R) (2006) and J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 61, 1336 (2007)]. We also comment on results obtained at an intermediate temperature that suggest an intriguing difference between the imaging mechanisms of NC-AFM and STM on structurally fluctuating samples. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.075310
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