Self-organized cristalline surfaces
Our team is renowned for its work on self-organized cristalline surfaces. These surfaces display fascinating spontaneous nanostructurations that we study by scanning tunneling microscopy and grazing incidence x-ray diffraction. The elastic interactions are most of the time the driving force for such a nice ordering. We are now also studying the influence of epitaxial strain on the thermodynamic of surface alloys.
Ordered growth
We use self-organized surfaces as templates for the ordered growth of nanostructures, controling their size and shape. We have obtained important results on the long-range ordered growth of nanostructures of cobalt, iron... More recently, we have used the same idea to obtain ordered molecular nanostructures.
Few references
Self-organized cristalline surfaces
“Ordered Surface Alloy of Bulk-Immiscible Components Stabilized by Magnetism“, S. Mehendale, Y. Girard, V. Repain, C. Chacon, J. Lagoute, S. Rousset, M. Marathe, S. Narasimhan, Physical Review Letters, 105, 056101 (2010).
“Elastic displacements and step interactions on metallic surfaces : GIXD and ab initio study of Au(332)", G. Prévot, Y. Girard, V. Repain, S. Rousset, A. Coati, Y. Garreau, J. Paul, N. Mammen, S. Narasimhan,
Physical Review B, 81, 075415 (2010).
“Self-organized epitaxial growth on spontaneously nano-patterned templates", S. Rousset, B. Croset, Y. Girard, G. Prévot, V. Repain, S. Rohart,
Comptes Rendus Physique, 6, 33 (2005).
Ordered growth
“Directed Growth of Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers on a Nanostructured Template : a Step toward the Patterning of Functional Molecular Domains”, N. Battaglini, Z. Qin, P. Campiglio, V. Repain, C. Chacon, S. Rousset, and P. Lang, Langmuir, 28, 15095 (2012).
“Building uniform and long-range ordered nanostructures on a surface by nucleation on a point defect array",
V Repain, S Rohart, Y Girard, A Tejeda, S Rousset, Journal of Physics : Condensed Matter, 18, S17 (2006).
“Two dimensional long-range ordered growth of cobalt nanostructures on a Au(111) vicinal template",V. Repain, G. Baudot, H. Ellmer, S. Rousset, Europhysics Letters, 58, 730 (2002).