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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 89, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.146106
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The structure of a four monolayer deposit of Pd on Ni(110) has been determined by a combination of x-ray diffraction experiments and density-functional theory calculations. This Pd film presents, after annealing at 500 K, a (Nx2) reconstruction associated with a large enhancement of its catalytic activity. The N superstructure, along the dense [1 (1) over bar0] direction, comes from periodic edge dislocations initiated by a vacancy in the first Pd layer. In the perpendicular direction, the doubling of the period originates in a pairing-buckling displacement of the rows. This study evidences a new Pd atoms arrangement with quasi-four-fold hollow sites on the surface, which could play an important role in the exceptional catalytic activity.
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