Comment on "Properly interpreting scanning tunneling microscopy images: the Cu(100)-c(2 x 2)N surface revisited" by T.E. Wofford, S.M. York and F.M. Leibsle [Surf. Sci. 522 (2003) 47]

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Driver, SM [1 ]
Woodruff, DP [1 ]
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[1] Univ Warwick, Dept Phys, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
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10.1016/S0039-6028(03)00400-X
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
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The rationale for attributing the protrusions in STM images of Cu(1 0 0)c(2 x 2)-N to Cu atoms in a symmetry-reducing adsorbate-induced surface layer rumpling is restated, and the alternative explanation by Wofford et al. is refuted. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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