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Cl

Na
hcp: ABABAB
fcc: ABCABC
Diamond Structure
III-V semiconductors
STM image
Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)

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NONIDEAL CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
But no general proof has been given that the ideal crystal is the state of
minimum energy of identical atoms at absolute zero. At finite temperatures
this is not likely to be true. Many structures that occur in nature are not
entirely periodic; see the quasicrystals treated at the end of Chapter 2.
Random Stacking and Polytypism
Structures are known in which the stacking sequence of close-packed
planes is random. This is known as random stacking and may be thought of
as crystalline in two dimensions and noncrystalline or glasslike in the third.

The mechanism that induces such long=range crystallographic order is not


a long=range force as such, but is associated with the presence of spiral steps
due to dislocations in the growth nucleus (Chapter 21).
Chapter 21, Spiral crystal growth from dislocation line
Thin Film Growth for 3D-TIs
3D TI films of the tetradymite family like Bi2Se3 by van der Waals epitaxy,
ideally suited for transition metal chalcogenide layered structures

A. Koma et al, (1984)


Bi2Te3 Surface Morphology Examined by AFM

Ts=275 ℃ Ts=300 ℃ Ts=320℃


 The size of
triangular
shaped
domain
increases with
growth
500 nm 500 nm temperature
200 nm
Ts=340℃
 The size of
domains is
approaching
to 2μm at
Ts = 340℃
500 nm

Typical hillock terrace morphology,


Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 171906 (2013,)
Calls for micro-ARPES, or nano-ARPES ! 14
by Prof. Jim Harris et al (Stanford)
Show for the hcp structure, the basis has two atoms: (1) one is at the origin, and (2)
the other is at the position of 2/3 a1 + 1/3 a2 + 1/2 a3

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