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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 1303-1309Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00253
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- ERC Advanced Grant SEPON
- FWF Project [P26633-N20]
- EU COST Action [CM1104]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P26633] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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An ultrathin two-dimensional CeO2 (ceria) phase on a Cu(110) surface has been fabricated and fully characterized by high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, and density functional theory. The atomic lattice structure of the ceria/Cu(110) system is revealed as a hexagonal CeO2(111)-type monolayer separated from the Cu(110) surface by a partly disordered Cu-O intercalated buffer layer. The epitaxial coupling of the two-dimensional ceria overlayer to the Cu(110)-O surface leads to a nanoscopic stripe pattern, which creates defect regions of quasi-periodic lattice distortions. The symmetry and lattice mismatch at the interface is clarified to be responsible for the topographic stripe geometry and the related anisotropic strain defect regions at the ceria surface. This ceria monolayer is in a fully oxidized and thermodynamically stable state.
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