Understanding the optical anisotropy of oxidized Si(001) surfaces

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Fuchs, F [1 ]
Schmidt, WG [1 ]
Bechstedt, F [1 ]
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[1] Univ Jena, Inst Festkorpetheorie & Opt, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevB.72.075353
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T [工业技术];
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First-principles optical-response calculations of oxidized and strained Si structures are presented. Local Si lattice deformations accompanying the oxidation of Si bulk bonds cause pronounced optical anisotropies that account very well for the reflectance difference signal measured during oxide growth [Yasuda , Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 037403 (2001)]. In contrast, calculations for various energetically favored (4x2) and (2x2) reconstructed overlayer structures fail to reproduce the experiment.
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